removing a file with hyphens

[Richard Foley]

On Thursday 07 June 2007 12:32, Paul Orrock wrote:
> 
> So for reasons I won't go into I ended up with a file like this
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 paulo paulo       0 2007-05-21 14:23 -----Original
> 
> which I didn't want
> 
Using the 'rm' manual page (man rm) gives:

To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of 
these commands:

              rm -- -foo

              rm ./-foo

-- 
Richard Foley
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