[wplug] Dumb question on rm or mv

Kuzman Ganchev kuzman at sccs.swarthmore.edu
Fri Aug 1 19:18:02 EDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:59:37PM -0400, Russ Schneider wrote:
> I mistakenly generated a file name -08-01-2002.sql
> Now, when I try and rm or mv it, I get an error because the system 
> thinks it's an option because of the -.
> 
> How to I rm this file?

rm -- -08-01-2002.sql

the -- means none of the rest of this line is options. mv, cp also
understand this. 





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