On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:51:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:35 -0700 > Hemal Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some > > > basic UNIX commands.. > > > > > > what is the command to remove the file "--directory" > > > > > > rm *directory* = nope > > > rm "*directory*" = nope > > > rm \-\-\directory = nope > > > rm -i * = nope and dosent even see the file > > rm ./-directory > > funny, though i tried these on a test directory... > > rm ./-test > rm -- --test >
You're missing the -r: $ rm -r -- --test should work. -- DoubleF The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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