From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 15:40:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF4C37B6DA for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:40:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 141zmo-000BiW-00; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 23:40:15 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eB1NeBp04031; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:40:11 +0100 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 00:40:11 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Mike Meyer Cc: Cliff Sarginson , Larry Rosenman , Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pesky file Message-ID: <20001202004011.B3898@buffy.local> References: <119603073@toto.iv> <14888.4617.148599.530943@guru.mired.org> <20001201225640.A2189@buffy.local> <14888.13560.811822.742841@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14888.13560.811822.742841@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:32:08PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 05:32:08PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Cliff Sarginson types: > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:03:05PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Larry Rosenman types: > > > > rm -- -help > > > > > > > > or rm -i ?help > > > > > > That won't work any more than "rm *help" would. The problem with both > > > of them is that the shell expands the metacharacters, so that rm sees > > > the "-" first, so thinks it's an argument. > > You are wrong btw, "rm -- -help" will work just fine :) > > "--" is a feature of rm (and mv etc) to get around this very problem. > > Before saying "that's wont work", take 23 seconds to try it out. > > Actually, I *knew* it would work. What doesn't work is "rm -i ?help". > I thought I made it clear which of the two I was talking about in the > second paragraph of my post, which elided: > > : Just FWIW, if you happen to be on a system that doesn't recognize the > : "--" convention (or need to run a command that doesn't), you can > : >always do "rm ./-help". > > I'm sorry I wasn't explicit enough for you, Cliff. It was not obvious... > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message