on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 02:26:37PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (debian@rl76065.cup.hp.com) wrote:
> hello:
>
> i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my
> ineptness! that is, i did:
>
> tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp
>
> silly me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files".
> my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast????
>
> i've tried
> rm -f "--remove-files"
> rm -f '--remove-files'
> rm -f "\\-\\-remove\\-files"
> rm -f "\-\-remove\-files"
> rm -f '\\-\\-remove\\-files'
> rm -f '\-\-remove\-files'
>
> all with the same lack of success!
>
> any assist in this would be most appreciated.
Yet another solution:
$ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f {} \;
Cheers.
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