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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing directory with leading hyphen from root directory Post 302934070 by Corona688 on Wednesday 4th of February 2015 11:52:32 AM
Old 02-04-2015
I suspect it's named -p\n or some other such garbage or else you'd have been able to remove it with rmdir /-p.

If it's an empty folder, ls -li won't show anything. -d tells it to show the folder itself instead of its contents.

Use -xdev to prevent it from leaving the root partition (and avoid those errors).

Many commands will accept -- to mean 'treat everything after this as an argument, not a flag' in case ls decides to consider it as the 'indicator style' option instead of an argument.

Code:
find . -xdev -inum 1767745 -exec ls -lid -- {} \;

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