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

[csieh]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, 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 $

rm ./-weed-Onion_Jack-Fake_Moon_Landings.wma

You just need to make the file not start with a - and using ./ does that.

> > 
> > 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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-Connie Sieh
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory