on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:17:32AM +1000, Brian May (bam@debian.org) wrote:
> >>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> Karsten> $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f
> Karsten> {} \;
>
> If it weren't for the fact that "find" prefixes the name of the file
> with "./", then this wouldn't work.
Note that I was posting an alternative, the 'rm -- --remove-files'
solution is the one I'd generally recommend.
I'm trying to remember a trick (probably in O'Reilly's _UNIX Power
Tools_) for removing files by inode. Trying to remember what it was or
in what context it worked. I think it was for files with odd characters
which would be interpreted as argument seperators, not for files
beginning with a dash or double-dash.
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