Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-21 Thread Adam Garside
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: CW Harris wrote: [Snip] thank you for the info. anyone know what the '--' option sigifies? I notice it's not really documented in the man page. m '--' instructs most utilities to stop parsing command options and treat everything

removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
hi, somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: -rw---1 matt matt 16K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.png -rw---1 matt matt 80K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.wmf -rw---1 matt matt 20K 2004-04-27 12:25 -1.jpg -rw---1 matt

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Adam Garside
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Ken Gilmour
Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scríobh Matt Price:  somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory:  I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of  hte kind:  rm \-*  or  rm '-0.pnf'  is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -?  

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or rm ./-0.pnf works too. -- Chris Harris [EMAIL

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: hi, somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: -rw---1 matt matt 16K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.png -rw---1 matt matt 80K 2004-05-31 17:07 -0.wmf -rw---1 matt

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scr?obh Matt Price: ?somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: ?I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of ?hte kind: ?rm \-* ?or ?rm '-0.pnf'

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or rm ./-0.pnf works too. doh! and it's even

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? I think it's done by adding another - to the start of the filename when you're specifying it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5