Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

[cls/cs <pplaw@pcisys.net>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar
> archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. 
> 
> Unfortunately I used the following line:
> 
> tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-archive folder-name
> 
> Now my home-partition is 100 % full and I don´t know how to delete that
> -gzip file! :-(
> Gee, why doesn´t tar realize that things starting with "-" are no file
> names.
> 
> I tried
> rm "-gzip" 
> rm ´-gzip´
> rm \-gzip
> 
> None of these worked.
> 
> What is the trick? (There must be one ...)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kerstin


...guessing here,  but if you 

mv -gzip foo (foo being some other name not beginning with "-")               

and then

rm foo

does that work?




bentley taylor.

ps.  i'm too chicken to replicate a -foo file.

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