> On 14:28 22 Sep 2004, James H. Cutts III <jcutts@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > | Through creative fiddling with my RH 9.0 system, I have managed to > | create a file with the name '--exclude=*.work.*' (ticks not included). > | I want to delete this file. Any suggestions on the command or on the > | Google search? I've tried including the file name in ' (ticks) and " > | (quotes). Neither resulted in success. > > Naturally quotes won't do anything - "rm" never sees them - they exist purely > to tell the shell how to interpret strings. > > Consider your problem: the filename resembles an option. So use a different > filename, like "./--exclude=*.work.*", which doesn't start with a dash: > > rm ./--exclude* > > should be perfectly reliable. > If you are careful, you can use wildcard expressions with "rm -i" such as: rm -i *exclude* works too. Or any wildcard matching. The "-i" is interactive and it will go through every file that matches and then ask if you want to remove it or not. Eventually it will hit the --exclude=*.work* and then after you're done you can ctrl-c out of the "rm" command Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
