Subject: Re: Unremovable file
To: Daniel Parks <danielp@reed.edu>
From: Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/11/2000 04:50:56
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Daniel Parks wrote:
> 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.
Try:
rm ./-*
--
Tod McQuillin