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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to remove a file with a leading dash '-' in it's name? Post 35761 by GSalisbury on Friday 2nd of May 2003 03:25:12 PM
Old 05-02-2003
How to remove a file with a leading dash '-' in it's name?
Somehow someone created a file named '-ov' in the root directory.

Given the name, the how was probably the result of some cpio command they bozo'ed.

I've tried a number of different ways to get rid of it using * and ? wildcards, '\' escape patterns etc.. They all fail with " illegal option -- o or v" errors. It appears that the '-' dash is being treated as options to my rm command.

If the p.o.s. file was in most any other directory I'd just move everything else out to somewhere then blow away the directory and re-make it and begin the stuff back.

Can't really do that with the root directory <g>.

Anyone have any other ideas on how it can be make to go away?

System is an Esix System V Release 4 box but I don't think that matters.

Thanks.

Geo.
 

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LEARN ABOUT X11R4

named-checkconf

named-checkconf(1M)					  System Administration Commands				       named-checkconf(1M)

NAME

       named-checkconf - named configuration file syntax checking tool

SYNOPSIS

       named-checkconf [-v] [-t directory] filename

DESCRIPTION

       The named-checkconf utility checks the syntax, but not the semantics, of a named configuration file.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -t directory    Change  the  root  directory to directory so that include directives in the configuration file are processed as if run by a
		       named configuration whose root directory has been similarly changed.

       -v	       Print the version of the named-checkconf program and exit.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       filename        The name of the configuration file to be checked. If not specified, it defaults to /etc/named.conf.

EXIT STATUS

       0	No errors were detected.

       1	An error was detected.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       |Availability		     |SUNWbind9 		   |
       |Interface Stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       named(1M), named.conf(4), attributes(5)

       BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual

NOTES

       Source for BIND9 is available in the SUNWbind9S package.

SunOS 5.10							    15 Dec 2004 					       named-checkconf(1M)
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