[SunHELP] stupid error
John Kennedy
sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Feb 7 14:07:09 CST 2001
I would do ls -i then do find ./ -inum #### -exec rm -i {} \;
John
David Bishop wrote:
> How can you delete a file that is named -al? Being stupid, I forgot what
I
> was doing and typed 'touch ls -al'. Now, rm and mv both refuse to touch
the
> file, whether I quote it, double-quote it, backslash escape it, or stand
on
> my head, claiming that -al are illegal arguments. Help!
>
> D.A.Bishop
>
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