Re: Can't delete a file

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

The universal answer comes from comp.unix.faq. Try

   rm ./-test

This should work no matter which ls you are using.

Mike Miller wrote:
>
> I have a file on my machine that I created that begins with a hyphen.
> How can I delete it. rm -test says can't delete est using option -t (or
> whatever). How do I tell it not to use the hyphen as a switch?

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland



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