rm a file with name '--min-size=8'

[Ian Malone]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> Yuandan Zhang wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I incidantly created file named as '--min-size=8'. In fact, I don't know how
>> it was created. I have difficulty to remove it using "rm -rf \--min-size=8
>> or other ways?
> 

<snip solution>

> 
> Alternatively, you can escape every hyphen and equals sign within the file name:
> $ rm -i \-\-min\-size\=8
> 

Will this actually work?  Doesn't bash eat the escapes before rm
sees them?

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imalone