rm the un-rm-able file
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Thu Sep 23 05:29:32 UTC 2004
On 14:28 22 Sep 2004, James H. Cutts III <jcutts at coin.org> wrote:
| Through creative fiddling with my RH 9.0 system, I have managed to
| create a file with the name '--exclude=*.work.*' (ticks not included).
| I want to delete this file. Any suggestions on the command or on the
| Google search? I've tried including the file name in ' (ticks) and "
| (quotes). Neither resulted in success.
Naturally quotes won't do anything - "rm" never sees them - they exist purely
to tell the shell how to interpret strings.
Consider your problem: the filename resembles an option. So use a different
filename, like "./--exclude=*.work.*", which doesn't start with a dash:
rm ./--exclude*
should be perfectly reliable.
Cheers,
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