On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 
> > > [-- Removing a file called '-axl' --]
> >
> > 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.
> > 
> 	Neither option will work - the first will try to remove a file
> 	with a " as the first and last character, the latter is identical
> 	to typing 'rm -axl', which is what started this thread.

Dunno.  The first one worked fine under linux... and upon trying it again,
it doesn't work....  I don't have a clue what's different....  Oh well....


David

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