Did you try rm -- filename ? Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~. Experimenting > with something I've now forgotten I guess. > > Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k. > > I've tried as many styles of escaping as I could come up with but all > are rejected like this: > > rm \-c > rm: illegal option -- c > usage: rm [-fiRr] file ... > > Ditto for: > > [\-]c > '-c' > *c > '-'c > \075c > > OK, I'm out of escapes. or other tricks... other than using emacs but > I haven't installed emacs as yet. > > I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs > installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a > shell prompt. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
