On Thu 23 September 2004 12:41, Ben Yau wrote: > > 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: or rename the file first: [stuart@behemoth stuart]$ rm --exclude rm: unrecognised option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for more information. [stuart@behemoth stuart]$ rename -- '' * [stuart@behemoth stuart]$ rm exclude rename is a very useful tool... Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
