What about

rm *something



On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Daniel Parks wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 23:47:01 -0700
> From: Daniel Parks <danielp@reed.edu>
> To: NetBSD-Mac68K List <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Unremovable file
> 
> I have had the pleasant luck of getting a file I can't remove.
> 
> I created it by attempting to un-tar something that was gzipped -- 
> without specifying -z. Anyway, I now have a file called -something on 
> my hard drive, where something is a bunch of random characters. rm 
> won't remove it because it thinks I'm giving it a parameter.
> 
> I wrote a simple c program to remove files specified on the command 
> line, but after I unlink() it, perror() reports that the file does 
> not exist. I tried to overwrite it (with cat >), hoping that giving 
> it some content would help, but that only made a new file similarly, 
> but not identically named, so now I can't use tab-completion to pass 
> the name of the file to some program.
> 
> Any ideas? It doesn't matter too much, as it isn't doing anything, 
> but it would be nice to get rid of it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>