Deleting a file where the first character in name is a '-'

[Mark Knecht]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
>>-----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.

Waldher,
    Thanks. Very weird answer, and yet very beautiful also. I haven't 
tried it yet. Want to read the man pages a bit, but it's cool that the 
file name maps back to an inode and that you can manipulate those too.

Thanks,
Mark