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Trying to remove a file with a name of:  -cr

If I do a "rm -i *" I get an error because it is trying to use the "-c" as
an option on the rm command.

Any ideas?

Thanks

CP> Trying to remove a file with a name of:  -cr

CP> If I do a "rm -i *" I get an error because it is trying to use the "-c" as
CP> an option on the rm command.

Use '--' to indicate that there are no more command flags to
process:

$ ls -l -- -cr
-rw-r--r--   1 ndronen  food              0 Feb 26 17:11 -cr
$ rm -- -cr
$ ls -l -- -cr
ls: 0653-341 The file -cr does not exist.

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how about:

rm -i "-cr"

or

find . -name "-cr" -exec rm -f {} \;

Amazing! Thanks. Worked like a charm. How the heck did you know that?

cp> Amazing! Thanks. Worked like a charm. How the heck did you know that?

A few years of experience is usually enough to pick up useful
little tricks here and there.

Also, please don't top-post.  (See URL below.) :-)

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The most standard way of reading the arguments from inside a program
will do some extended processing for identifying flags.  As part of that
processing, it will recognize '--' as "from this place on there are no
more flags".

Incidentaly, trying rm -f * is very dangerous (because you can have
files with special characters on them).

Demo:
# echo > '-rf ..'
"rm *" will expand to "rm -rf .. remaining files"

To avoid this sort of expansion, rm won't touch '..', but the ingenuity
of fools is never to be underestimated.

Always: rm -- *

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Quote:>Trying to remove a file with a name of:  -cr

>If I do a "rm -i *" I get an error because it is trying to use the "-c" as
>an option on the rm command.

>Any ideas?

>Thanks

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