rm the un-rm-able file

[Cameron Simpson]

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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