[wplug] removing problem file
Jonathan S Billings
billings at negate.org
Wed Jul 21 13:05:13 EDT 2004
Jonathan S Billings wrote:
> beer wrote:
>
>> So i was typing in a command and screwed up the syntax which caused an
>> error and the creation of a file name '-a'. Of course if I attempt to
>> remove the file rm complains that --a is an unknown option. :) Anyone
>> have a suggestion for removing this?
>
>
> rm -- -a
>
> the -- means "no more arguments after this".
By the way, this is a standard convention in unix commands, so it will
work with many other commands.
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Jonathan S. Billings <billings at negate.org>
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