Re: [lug-nuts] FW: cool way to rm files

From: James Nessen (nessenj@jimsoffice.org)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 09:48:49 PST

Another quick way to delete files is to supress the file name in quotes ""

ie. (rm -f "-sT")

Jim 

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Harry Souders wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:22:35AM -0800, Lancashire, Andrew wrote:
> > How timely this all was.  I had accidentally created a file from the output
> > of another command.  The  file name was "-sT" (without the quotes
> > obviously).  I had tried several ways to delete it and could not.   The one
> > I used successfully was ls|xargs -n1 --interactive rm -- , thank you Harry
> > Souders, it worked like a charm.

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