Re: removing a file thsat starts with -

[Bill Wohler]

> I have a file called "-foo", and /bin/rm cannot remove it because it
> keeps trying to see the "-" as a command-line option. In pre-gnu
> days, I'd do "rm - -foo" and it'd work, but now it doesn't.

  The correct answer is:

    rm ./-foo

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