Deleting a file where the first character in name is a '-'
Waldher, Travis R
Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com
Wed Sep 8 22:03:19 UTC 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Knecht [mailto:mknecht at controlnet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Deleting a file where the first character in name is a '-'
>
> Hi all,
> Since Rick suggested I'd been absent too long ;-) here's
> one for the team. How do I delete this file? I'm stumped, but
> that's easy to do.
>
> flash Images $ ls -la
> total 388776
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mark users 6920582 Apr 28 15:34
> -weed-Onion_Jack-Fake_Moon_Landings.wma
> drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 Sep 8 14:19 .
> drwx------ 70 mark users 4096 Sep 8 14:12 ..
> flash Images $
>
> I tried quoting it, and back/forward slashing it, but I'm not
> able to get rid of it.
>
> thanks,
> Mark
Behold, the power of google:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-May/msg00613.html
:D
I could only find it because my SGI Admin classes taught me about
manipulating the inodes; somewhere in my brain I remembered that you
could delete them that way.
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