[Gllug] need help deleting strange filename

Chris Ball chris at cpan.org
Mon Aug 6 17:51:15 UTC 2001


On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:30:39PM +0100, Paul Brazier wrote:
> I'm sure there must be a simple solution to this:

Yup. The '--' switch to rm will tell it that the switches have finished,
and it can interpret whatever follows as a filename. 'rm -- --001.avi'
should remove your file. :-)

~C.

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