Hello Try, from the command line rm ./ name_ of_ directory
-----Original Message----- From: Leon, Yanet I,,DMDCWEST [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Funny character on a dir name. 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]