[SunHELP] Re: stupid error

[Edward Chase]

rm ls??al

use ? as a single char wildcard



At 11:05 AM 2/7/2001 -0700, 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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