Top Document: Unix - Frequently Asked Questions (2/7) [Frequent posting] Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: How do I remove a file with funny characters in the filename ? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge 2.1) How do I remove a file whose name begins with a "-" ? Figure out some way to name the file so that it doesn't begin with a dash. The simplest answer is to use rm ./-filename (assuming "-filename" is in the current directory, of course.) This method of avoiding the interpretation of the "-" works with other commands too. Many commands, particularly those that have been written to use the "getopt(3)" argument parsing routine, accept a "--" argument which means "this is the last option, anything after this is not an option", so your version of rm might handle "rm -- -filename". Some versions of rm that don't use getopt() treat a single "-" in the same way, so you can also try "rm - -filename". User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: Unix - Frequently Asked Questions (2/7) [Frequent posting] Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: How do I remove a file with funny characters in the filename ? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: tmatimar@isgtec.com (Ted Timar)
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