rm -- -file

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.
> 
> 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



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