Ugly file name

[Chris Torek]

In article <2214 at Portia.Stanford.EDU> joe at hanauma.stanford.edu (Joe Dellinger) writes:
>Even "rm -i *" used to be dangerous. There is the famous case where
>somebody accidentally created a file name "-f", and decided to remove
>it by doing "rm -i *". The csh dutifully expanded this to
>"rm -i -f [files...]", and at that time "-f" overrode "-i" in rm.
>Result: everything in the directory deleted EXCEPT the file "-f"!

Thus, to be safe against old versions of `rm', use

	rm -i ./*

or, in this case more simply,

	rm ./-f
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