[SunHELP] stupid error

[Bashar]

	 rm ls\ -al is your only man or rm *ls*al*


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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Michel, Walt wrote:

> Assuming it is the only file with the terminating character of 'al' you can
> do an 'rm ?al'
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	David Bishop [mailto:david at bishop.dhs.org] 
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:06 PM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	[SunHELP] stupid error
> 
> 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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