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Old 06-09-2004
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Deleting an unusual file
Hi everyone,

I was doing some practising with Unix and accidentally created a file with the name --------------------

Yeah, it was UNINTENTIONALLY. I tried removing it various ways like
rm '--------------'
rm '-.*'
and all other sorts, but Unix keeps detecting that as an option stuff...

Anyone any idea how to remove this file? Thx
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rm -- ----*
The initial "--" tells rm to stop treating the arguments as options, and treat them as filenames.

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