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

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

cls/cs wrote:
> 
> 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.

  two ways:

  rm ./-gzip
  rm -- -gzip

  the first one should work everywhere, the second one works with gnu
rm, I think, not sure though.

	erik