Difference between revisions of "Removing files with weird names"
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Revision as of 08:12, 4 August 2010
In a shell run this command:
touch -- -rf
First thing, don't try to remove this file! Now ask yourself, "How do I delete it?".
Most GNU tools will accept '--' as an option. This tells the option parser to stop interpreting the arguments list as options. For example, to remove a file named "-rf" do this:
rm -- -rf
