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Re: Remove funny files



>> "Rolf" == Rolf Edlund <roed@hem.utfors.se> writes:

Rolf> That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it
Rolf> as 'rm -i --exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp
Rolf> one directory, then it was easy to remove the file.

-- starts an option. Commands, that accept --option style options use
-- to indicate that the following words are to be taken literaly.

That is, rm -i -- --exclude=files.txt would have removed the file.

Ciao,
	Martin


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