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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:30:47 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Vinicius Vianna <ds@listas.hacked.com.br>
Cc:        Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to remove a dir named "--help"?
Message-ID:  <20010920123047.A54583@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br>; from ds@listas.hacked.com.br on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:34:06PM -0300
References:  <5.1.0.14.0.20010919203029.09ccd918@mail.wexperts.com.br>

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:34:06PM -0300, Vinicius Vianna wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> Recently as a mistype I created a dir named "--help" as the follow:
> 
> drwxr-x---   5 qmailq  qmail   512 Sep 19 20:25 --help/
> 
> So how can I remove this? when i type "rm -rf --help" it exits quietly, i tried some glob as "*help*" and escape as "\-\-help" but not worked so far, when i try to "cd" into it says:

Try:
    rmdir ./--help
or  rm -rf ./--help

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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