[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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