rm the un-rm-able file

Harry Hoffman hhoffman at ip-solutions.net
Wed Sep 22 19:34:26 UTC 2004


rm -f -- '--exclude=*.work.*'

HTH,
Harry


James H. Cutts III 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.
>
> Thanks.
> James
>
>





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