On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 16:05:22 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >That's it! In some of my screwing around I managed to create a file name -x >unintentionally. > e.g. "touch foo -x". Even if the apparent option results from wildcard expansion. And "-" may collate early.
>A bear to delete. Luckily in looking for something else I read about --. rm -- >-x deletes it. > Since each utility interprets its arguments, some may not respect "--", even if POSIX requires it. "./-x" is more reliable. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
