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Can somebody help me out there..  Well here's my problem..  Out
of stupidity I made some files with the filename of

-c  

and the other

-z

(those are the name of the files)..

rm refuses to remove them.... I do

rm -c (It comes out with an invalid switch??)

if I do rm * (It comes out with -c invalid option)..

I tried almost everything, how do I delete this..

Thanks for any reply..

George Daswani

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Subject: How do I remove a file whose name begins with a "-" ?
Date: Thu Mar 18 17:16:55 EST 1993

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".

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Andreas

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Andreas Dunker                                                2B || ! 2B

Try rm -- -c -z

The -- tells rm to treat anything after it as a filename (for just
such a problem as yours).

Dave

: Can somebody help me out there..  Well here's my problem..  Out
: of stupidity I made some files with the filename of

: -c  

: and the other

: -z

: (those are the name of the files)..

: rm refuses to remove them.... I do

: rm -c (It comes out with an invalid switch??)

: if I do rm * (It comes out with -c invalid option)..

: I tried almost everything, how do I delete this..

rm -i *
It'll ask you for each and every file whether or not you want to delete
it.  Say yes only to "-c" and "-z".  Once you get past those, yuo can
safely ^C.

: Thanks for any reply..

: George Daswani

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Quote:>rm -i *

rm ./-c

And, this way you can also remove a file whose name is "-i".

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