Re: Remove funny files

[Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>]

On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 08:22:56PM +0200, Rolf Edlund wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was playing around with Tar, and done a verry foolish thing.. :-)
> 
>   tar -cvf --exclude=files.txt allfiles.tar * 
> 
> That gives me a '--exclude=files.txt' file. Trying to remove it as 'rm -i
> --exclude=files.txt' was unpossible. But when I go upp one directory, then
> it was easy to remove the file.
> 
>   rm -i Backupfiles/--exclude=files.txt
> 
> ..but maby you allready know about this. :-)
> 
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Hi,

I played around with it and I got it to delete by running mc then
highlighting the offending file and pressing F8

hth
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