Cameron Hutchison wrote:
Once upon a time Antonio Rodriguez said...
When capturing a file from an url with the command
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile archive.rm -playlist url
and other variants, by misplacing the option -rtsp-stream-over-tcp a
file was created with this name, i.e.,
-rtsp-stream-over-tcp is the filename.
Two common ways:
rm -- -rtsp-stream-over-tcp
or
rm ./-rtsp-stream-over-tcp
In the first case, the -- tells rm to stop processing options, in the second case you're finding a way to refer to the same file in such a way that it does not start with -.
Often, too, you can use the TAB key to advance over problematic characters, a "?" to represent one of them and "*" to represent any number of them. So
rm ?rtsp-stream-over-tcp rm *over-tcp
Sometimes, what prints as a space is actually something else. That can be particularly confusing.
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