From: Roy White (RoyW at domain imsi.com)
Date: Wed 23 May 2001 - 09:46:18 IST
Seeing as how we are on this subject here's one for ya,
how do I delete the following files...
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#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 domain 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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