Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:18:20 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to remove "-KVCD.stats"? Message-ID: <20090103201820.79f10747.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <f84c38580901030948w267de7ebpe045ce5ceb12fa92@mail.gmail.com> References: <f84c38580901030948w267de7ebpe045ce5ceb12fa92@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:48:09 -0500, "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > due to using mkxvcd to convert avi to mpg, I sometimes generates > "-KVCD.stas" file. How can I remove this? every time I run: > > rm -f \-KVCD.stats > > or > > rm -f "_KVCD.stas" > > it says: > > rm: illegal option -- K > usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... > unlink file Try to use "--" in order to stop argument (command line iotion) processing: # rm -f -- -KVCD.stats Nothing after "--" will be treated as an argument. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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