Unix problem

[Kelly DeYoe]

In article <14425 at medusa.cs.purdue.edu> wangjw at ifestos.cs.purdue.edu () writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I was using the X-window and somehow generated some garbage files. I
>cannot remove some files because these files are named "-C", "-f" etc.
>Can someone tell me how to remove these garbages? 
>
>  Thanks.
>
>Jingwen Wang
>
>wangjw at cs.purdue.edu


To get rid of these files, or simply be able to rename them to
something more managable, you can go to the parent directory and
manipulate them that way.  i.e.:

cd ..
rm dir/-C (assuming you started in directory dir)

and *poof*, it's gone. . .

KD