Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
i normally keep a -stable and a -current. when removing -stable rm -rf ./\-stable path here is relative, abspath works as well. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-10 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
Nick wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Supote Leelasupphakorn Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How can I remove this file ? Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with "-" ? TIA

RE: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-10 Thread Nick
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Supote Leelasupphakorn > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How can I remove this file ? > > Hi lists > > How can I delete file named prefix with "

RE: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Troy Settle
> -Original Message- > From: David Piniella > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:02 AM > > > I've never run across that. > > % cd tmp > % ls > % touch - > % ls > - > % rm - > % ls > % > > although if it was giving you trouble, I suppose you could do a > rm ./\- > > -- > David Piniella >

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread David Piniella
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi lists How can I delete file named prefix with "-" ? If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already know that since the following paragraph appears there: The rm command

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: > Hi lists > > How can I delete file named prefix with "-" ? If you had bothered to read the manpage for rm(1) you would already know that since the following paragraph appears there: The rm command uses getopt(3) to pa

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:40:35PM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: > Hi lists > > How can I delete file named prefix with "-" ? Use "rm ./- -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "Only the meek ge