On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scr?obh Matt Price:
> >?somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory:
> >?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 -?
> >
> >?thanks,
> >
> >?matt
> 
> What about 
> rm *0.png

tried that too:
$ rm *0.png
rm: invalid option -- 0
Try `rm --help' for more information.

somehow I need to escape the '-' but can't seem to manage it.
m

> 
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