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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Deleting directory with leading hyphen in name Post 302981519 by edstevens on Wednesday 14th of September 2016 08:46:01 AM
Old 09-14-2016
Deleting directory with leading hyphen in name
I asked this question last month in Stack Exchange (linux - delete directory with leading hyphen - Server Fault) and none of the answers supplied worked.

I have somehow created a directory with a leading hyphen and cannot get rid of it.

Code:
[root]# ls -li | grep p
2621441 drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 May  7  2015 cgroup
      3 drwxr-xr-x   19 root root  3700 Sep 14 07:11 dev
1572865 drwxr-xr-x. 101 root root 12288 Sep 14 07:11 etc
  11256 drwxr-xr-x    2 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 misc
  11259 drwxr-xr-x    2 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 net
2359297 drwxr-xr-x.   5 root root  4096 Aug 25 11:36 opt
1835010 drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Aug 25 10:14 –p
      1 dr-xr-xr-x   96 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 proc
1179649 dr-xr-x---.   2 root root  4096 Sep 14 07:23 root
      1 dr-xr-xr-x   13 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 sys
 393217 drwxrwxrwt.   3 root root  4096 Sep 14 07:11 tmp
[root]# find . -inum 1835010
./–p
find: `./proc/3123/task/3123/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `./proc/3123/task/3123/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory
find: `./proc/3123/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `./proc/3123/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory
[root]# rmdir -- -p
rmdir: failed to remove `-p': No such file or directory
[root]# find . -type d -name '-p' -delete
[root]# ls -li | grep p
2621441 drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 May  7  2015 cgroup
      3 drwxr-xr-x   19 root root  3700 Sep 14 07:11 dev
1572865 drwxr-xr-x. 101 root root 12288 Sep 14 07:11 etc
  11256 drwxr-xr-x    2 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 misc
  11259 drwxr-xr-x    2 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 net
2359297 drwxr-xr-x.   5 root root  4096 Aug 25 11:36 opt
1835010 drwxr-xr-x.   2 root root  4096 Aug 25 10:14 –p
      1 dr-xr-xr-x   96 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 proc
1179649 dr-xr-x---.   2 root root  4096 Sep 14 07:23 root
      1 dr-xr-xr-x   13 root root     0 Sep 14 07:11 sys
 393217 drwxrwxrwt.   3 root root  4096 Sep 14 07:11 tmp
[root]#
[root]# find . -inum 1835010 -exec rm -Rf {} \;
find: `./–p': No such file or directory
find: `./proc/3138/task/3138/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `./proc/3138/task/3138/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory
find: `./proc/3138/fd/5': No such file or directory
find: `./proc/3138/fdinfo/5': No such file or directory
[root]#

 

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