Removing Files Starting With —
Filed Under
Linux at 28th September 2010 12:48 by
Danny
I encountered an interesting problem today. I created a file called –verbose (obviously I passed the argument incorrectly) but trying to remove it more of an issue.
Typing rm -f --verbose makes the command rm think it’s a parameter rather than a file.
In the end I used an SFTP connection to remove the file.
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how will this work?
rm ./–verbose
That worked!
Thanks Lee
do rm — –verbose
all posix apps should see the — as the “end of options” , so all other -* should be taken as literal to the command
the comment above is minusminus ( – – ), but the blog replaced that as one big – instead of 2 🙂