[SunHELP] stupid error

[Nguyen C. Ta]

rm -- -al

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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