[ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix

[Roy White]

Seeing as how we are on this subject here's one for ya,

how do I delete the following files...
=========================================================
#ls -las | more
total 869
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:19  unexpected

              ^

% Invalid input detected at
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:14  unexpected

             ^

% Invalid input detected at
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:15  unexpected

            ^

% Invalid input detected at
   0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:16  unexpected

 ^

% Invalid input detected at
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? any help much appreciated, and how would you go about creating them

Regards

	Roy

p.s. this is on Solaris 5.6

-----Original Message-----
From: Colm Buckley [mailto:colm at tuatha.org]
Sent: 23 May 2001 09:35
To: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin); Irish Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix


On Wednesday 23 May 2001 09:30, you wrote:
> Quote it ?

Proinnsias, I'm ashamed of you.

Quote parsing is performed by the *shell*, and option parsing is
performed by the *command*.  Quoting the name won't make any
difference to what 'rm' sees.

> rm "--preserve-permissions"
> should do it

It would be a good idea if people actually *tried* their solutions
before passing them on as advice...

           Colm

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You sound reasonable... Time to up my medication.

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