Benjamin Franz wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Eric B. wrote:
Hi,
I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files
that
start with the - character.
[eric@apollo mysql]$ ls -l
total 93348
-rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08
-rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13 19:02 --newer=2007-11-08
Don't ask how they were created; something went wrong with a script
at some
point.
My problem is that I am trying to delete them, but can't figure out
how to
delete these files. Everything I try, I get the same msg:
[eric@apollo mysql]$ rm '-N=2007-11-08'
rm: invalid option -- N
Try `rm --help' for more information.
I have tried single quotes, double quotes, escaping it with a \ and
still
get the same error.
Any ideas / suggestions?
rm ./-N=2007-11-08 ./--newer=2007-11-08
Or, from the "rm" man page:
To remove a file whose name starts with a ‘-’, for example ‘-foo’, use
one of these com-
mands:
rm -- -foo
rm ./-foo
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