Re: problem removing a file

2002-01-15 Thread Caleb Shay
rm -- --absolute-paths would work also. The "--" says that you are done passing arguments to rm, everything is is file names. Roderick Cummings wrote: > > >From: "Adrian Bolzan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: pr

Re: problem removing a file

2002-01-15 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: "Adrian Bolzan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem removing a file Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:24:11 +1000 Hi, I have a file that has been named "--absolute-paths" (no quotes). It looks like it was created when one of our sy

Re: problem removing a file

2002-01-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:24:11 +1000, "Adrian Bolzan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file that has been named "--absolute-paths" (no > quotes). It looks like it was created when one of our > sysadmins was testing a burt backup routine. > > It is about 650MB and I need to remove i

Re: problem removing a file

2002-01-14 Thread Pete Ryland
rm -- --absolute-paths The rm man page says: To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of these commands: rm -- -foo rm ./-foo hth, Pete On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:24:11PM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote: > Hi, > > I have

problem removing a file

2002-01-14 Thread Adrian Bolzan
Hi, I have a file that has been named "--absolute-paths" (no quotes). It looks like it was created when one of our sysadmins was testing a burt backup routine. It is about 650MB and I need to remove it. However, I cannot remove the file as the rm command thinks it is an option! nor can I ren