On 3/14/07, Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Q) In the CLI, how do you rm (remove) a file that begins with a hyphen ?
>
> A) rm -- --oops
>
Wasn't there a similar horror story where a program would save a
directory as .* or *. or whatever, and then rm -R .* would expand to ..
among other things, nuking the parent folder too?
rm ".*"
Regards,
Atis
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