DAve wrote:
Efren Bravo wrote:
Hi,
Accidentally I've created a file called -exclude
and now I cann't delete it.
I tried with:
rm -exclude and rm *exclude but it returns this:
rm: illegal option -- -
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ...
unlink file
How can I delete it?
You have probably found that anything you try errors because the shell
thinks -e is a switch. The easiest way is to find the files inode number
and delete the file using that.
director# ls -i
107008 .bash_history 107760 .login 107759 .mail_aliases
107764 .profile 107765 .shrc
107758 .cshrc 107761 .login_conf 107762 .mailrc 107763
.rhosts
then use find to remove the file.
director# find . -inum 107763 -exec rm -i {} \;
remove ./.rhosts? y
This works for all manner of funky file names. I had done that many
times before, generally from not reading man pages and passing switches
to programs that didn't expect it, or by piping commands incorrectly.
DAve
Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Efren Bravo wrote:
>> Accidentally I've created a file called -exclude
>> and now I cann't delete it.
>
> Try:
>
> rm -- -exclude
>
See, just like I said. I got into trouble a long time ago by not reading
man pages, and discovered I could delete by inode. I've done it that way
from habit since.
*Had I read the man pages back then* I would have known about rm -- ;^)
I read all manner of man pages, README, CHANGES, and INSTALL docs now
before I do anything new. John Polstra from SeaBug gently chided me into
that habit until I caught on.
DAve
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