removing a file with hyphens

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 11:45 +0100, Kaoru wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> With most of the basic bash commands 

er 'rm', 'mv' et al are *not* "basic bash commands" - they are separate
programs.  IIRC the use of '--' to indicate the end of the options
predates GNU (and hence bash) by some years.

/J\