Saturday, October 28, 2006

How to remove a file with a dash as first character?

If you accidentally created a file with a - in the beginning then you want to
remove it, you have to do :
rm ./-thefile

10 comments:

Igor said...

Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for!

JTP said...

Thank you! No amount of backslashing seems to work.

Anonymous said...

Thanks - exactly what I needed!

Unknown said...

thank you , I was looking for it.

Tim said...

Absolute magic

Anonymous said...

Thank you!!!

Anonymous said...

And if you have a file like this: "--exclude", you can delete it like this:
rm ./--exclude

Anonymous said...

Th-thanks

James said...

Awesome, you saved my life...

ok said...

Thanks!

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