Hi,
Happy 2002.
Now I am actually encountering a problem.
Suppose I have a file which I can see has been named as -rw-rwx or .rwxrw-- .
when I try to move this file I am unable to do so.
Can someone please help me , How can i get rid of the file.

Thanks in advance .

Hi rooh,

Can you provide more information? What account are you using to remove the file? And not all the permissions of the file is given.

From part of the permissions shown, the owner and those who are a member of the group shall be able to remove the file. As they have the permission to read and write to the file, assume the permission to be -rw-rwx---.

For the other accounts, they are not given the right to remove the file.

Also root account shall be able remove the file, regardless of the permission.

I think that rooh has a file whose filename is -rw-rwx. Since the filename starts with a dash, the shell will try to treat it as an option instead of a filename. You can override this default behaviour with:

ls -l -- -rw-rwx
rm -- -rw-rwx

The -- closes out option processing for the command so that the following info will be treated as filenames or whatever.

You are right Jimbo . That's what I was really looking For.
Thanx alot. You knew exactly what I was looking for.
Have a nice time.