Deleting a file where the first character in name is a '-'
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Sep 8 23:41:00 UTC 2004
csieh wrote:
> 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.
Actually, the best way is the "--" option. This works on most basic
commands (cp, rm, mv, ls, etc.). "--" is a special flag that says "this
is the end of the options...the remainder are parameters".
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