Harry posted this to vox. It should help with any rm problems.
Check the bottom of the message for his cool command.
brian
----- Forwarded message from Harry Souders <gnulinux@rosecomputing.com> -----
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:40:28 -0800
From: Harry Souders <gnulinux@rosecomputing.com>
To: vox@lists.mother.com
Subject: Re: oh brother...
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In-Reply-To: <19991229155708.A4901@gollum.wormley.com>; from Steve Wormley on Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 03:57:08PM -0800
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On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 03:57:08PM -0800, Steve Wormley wrote:
> > you can see me getting more and more desperate with each try. i give up.
> > what's the trick here?
> >
> > pete
> rm ./-g
This might work too:
rm -- -g
The - in the file is a problem because rm thinks you are giving it an
option (ie ls -l ). The '--' in the example above tells rm that
everything after it is not an option.
So, I'm thinking about this problem and thought...
Hey! What if I had a directory full of oddball filenames that I wanted
to delete, but I only wanted to delete certain ones? Well, you could
interactively delete the files you want with this:
ls|xargs -n1 --interactive rm --
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