On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar > archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. > > Unfortunately I used the following line: > > tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-archive folder-name > > Now my home-partition is 100 % full and I don´t know how to delete that > -gzip file! :-( > Gee, why doesn´t tar realize that things starting with "-" are no file > names. > > I tried > rm "-gzip" > rm ´-gzip´ > rm \-gzip > > None of these worked. > > What is the trick? (There must be one ...) > > > Regards, > > Kerstin
...guessing here, but if you mv -gzip foo (foo being some other name not beginning with "-") and then rm foo does that work? bentley taylor. ps. i'm too chicken to replicate a -foo file. //
