removing a file with hyphens

Luis Motta Campos luismottacampos at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jun 7 13:47:28 BST 2007


On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> 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.

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