Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:13:41 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Pedro Hernandez <pedro@hci.com.mx> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Erasing files ... Message-ID: <20000630141341.A11964@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLDLJFKMIDBKILPEPMECMCIAA.pedro@hci.com.mx>; from pedro@hci.com.mx on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:07:30PM -0600 References: <NDBBLDLJFKMIDBKILPEPMECMCIAA.pedro@hci.com.mx>
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:07:30PM -0600, Pedro Hernandez wrote: > How can I delete a file named "-z" from root file system ? You can use the '--' flag to rm, which tells it that there are no more flags, and everything else is a filename: wopr:~/tmp$ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mph mph 0 Jun 30 14:10 -z drwxr-xr-x 3 mph mph 1024 Jun 28 19:11 pictures/ wopr:~/tmp$ rm -- -z wopr:~/tmp$ ls -l total 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 mph mph 1024 Jun 28 19:11 pictures/ Or, explicitly specify a path so that the first character isn't a hyphen: wopr:~/tmp$ ls -l total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mph mph - 0 Jun 30 14:10 -z drwxr-xr-x 3 mph mph - 1024 Jun 28 19:11 pictures/ wopr:~/tmp$ rm ./-z wopr:~/tmp$ ls -l total 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 mph mph 1024 Jun 28 19:11 pictures/ -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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