On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Rodney M. Hopkins wrote:

> At 11:40 PM 11/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >On Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:57:15 -0600,
> >"Rodney M. Hopkins" <rhopkins@sunflower.com> wrote:
> >> At 07:18 PM 11/16/97 -0800, you wrote:
> >> >
> >> >If you simple want to remove it, try:
> >> >
> >> >rm -- -axl
> >> 
> >> Kick butt!  This worked like I charm!
> >> 
> >> I knew there was such a facility in UN*X but I couldn't for the life of me
> >> remember it.  I was trying /- and \- and '- and all kinds of other stuff,
> >
> >Shouldn't "rm ./-axl" also work? (provided it's in the current directory)
> 
> Yup!  That works too.  I'd never thought of that, as I very rarely use that
> notation.  Just goes to prove, there's more than one way to delete a file.  ;)

Yeah.  In fact, rm \"-axl\" should work, too (quotes to indicate that it's
not a flag, backslashes to keep the shell from removing the quotes when
turning it into an argument.  That might be shell-dependent, tho.
Alternatively, ls *axl and if it's the only one, rm *axl.


David

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