[SunHELP] stupid error

David Bishop sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Feb 7 12:05:36 CST 2001


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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