Weird Files...

Roger Day roger at day.za.net
Thu Oct 26 07:55:37 EDT 2000


Try 
rm  '-f2'

bash is interpreting the "-" as a parameter to rm thus 2 is invalid.

Hope this helps

Roger


On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

> Hello,
> 	I have a file called -f20 in my home directory.  I can't do
> anything to it - I keep getting 2 is an invalid option.  Does anyone know
> how to delete them?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anthony
> 
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