Re: Deleting weird-named files

[Ed Curtis <ed@homes2see.com>]

 Thanks, worked like a charm!

Ed

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:17, Ed Curtis wrote:
> > I recently tried to tar a directory and used the --exclude= tag. I wound
> > up making a file called --exclude=*.jpg. I can't seem to delete this file
> > even using '--exclude=*.jpg'. It keeps trying to take the -- as a command
> > option. How can I delete this file?
>
> try:
>
> rm -- '--exclude=\*.jpg'
>
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