On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:57:09PM +0530, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> 
> OK, so I screwed up big time, and typed the following
> $ mkdir ls -al
> 
> SO now I have two directories "ls" and "-al".  I removed "ls", but don't
> know how to remove "-al".  All commands fail:
> 
> $ rm -f '-al'

rm ./-al

Any word starting with '-' is considered an option, util the first word not
starting with '-' (so 'rm -rf nonexistent -al' would have worked too :)


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