On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hi, > > somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: > > -rw------- 1 matt matt 16K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.png > -rw------- 1 matt matt 80K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.wmf > -rw------- 1 matt matt 20K 2004-04-27 12:25 -1.jpg > -rw------- 1 matt matt 136 2004-05-31 17:07 -1.png > -rw------- 1 matt matt 80K 2004-05-31 17:07 -1.wmf > > I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of > hte kind: > > rm \-* > or > rm '-0.pnf' > > is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -?
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