What about rm -rf "-r" "-f"? If not, a file manager like Midnight Commander should do the trick. On 2/9/07, Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Karey Weston wrote: > >> I've accidently created two directories: -f and -q > >> > >> Now, i can't remove them with rm -rf -f -q > >> I get an error. > >> > > > > Try giving the full path name to the directory. Such as, > > rm -rdf ./-f ./-q > > Try this (works with bash on BSD...Linux should be the same) > > rm -rf \-f \-q > > Make sure you are in bash...the backslashes escape the - and take it as a > literal. That won't work. The dashes are significant to "rm", not the shell. The backslashes will be removed by the shell, and won't affect the arguments which "rm" sees. I have no idea why this would work on BSD; bash is bash, regardless of the underlying OS. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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