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Old 09-16-2015
Rm file named '--log-file'
For some stupid reason I used a series of stupid switches and created this file, now can't seem to get rm to believe it's a file and not a switch Smilie

Yeah, I know, I know, but seriously, how do I delete it?
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Old 09-16-2015
Reminds me of the stories I heard of line errors on ancient teletypes creating bizarre filenames.. I couldn't understand how until someone mentioned >'s appearing in the wrong place.

Most commands take the -- option to convince them to take any following arguments literally, rm -- --weirfilename

You could also prepend it with an absolute or relative path, rm /path/to/--file or rm ./--file
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Old 09-16-2015
absolute path worked, thanks Smilie
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Old 09-16-2015
You might want to use wildcards together with the -i flag: rm -i *log-file.
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Old 09-17-2015
You could also use the i-node:-
Code:
ls -li | grep log-file

The first column is the i-node, then you can do this:-
Code:
find . -inum inum -exec rm {} \;


Just another way if the others don't. It can be very good for removing files with space in them too.


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