On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:12:38PM -0600, thompson at math-cs.cns.uni.edu wrote: > and if you have problems with this add '--' before the file > name... My whole point was that you _won't_ have any problems if you refer to dash "dash files" using a leading directory name (./). This method has the advantage that it will with most any command, while I think the '--' trick only works with rm. > so: > rm -- ./-stupid_dash_file > -or > rm -i -- ./-stupid_dash_file > > The second one will ask before deleting... not always bad to > check before deleting. Yes, only the truly brave do much work before aliasing rm to 'rm -i'. > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 08:54:40AM -0600, Jim Crumley wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:07:29PM -0600, Daniel Taylor wrote: > > > The nastiest filenames have leading dashes... > > > > Just use: > > > > rm ./-stupid_dash_file -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org