On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 15:03, Leon, Yanet I,,DMDCWEST wrote:
> Not necessarily a perl question.  One of the users (on a Unix box) created a
> directory with a dash at the beginning of the name (no idea how he did it)
> and he needs to remove it.  The name of the file is -testing is there a way
> to remove it using perl or other means.  I removed it using the inode number
> of the directory.  Is there another way?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Yanet
>

rmdir -- -testing

The -- tells rmdir (and most other commands) to stop processing
switches. 

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