Problem removing a file
John B. Milton
jbm at uncle.UUCP
Mon Jan 30 11:35:53 AEST 1989
In article <695 at flatline.UUCP> erict at flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
[ made a filed name -ef, can't remove it]
rm, like most utilities uses getopt(3) to get the switches from the command
line. A quick look at the man page will give youyour answer. If you put an
option "--" on the command line, getopt will stop looking at switches.
What you want is:
rm -- -ef
Ouch, too simple. The -- feature is very valuable with grep:
grep -- -rf script
John
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