Weird Files...

[Derek Atkins]

Right.. So you need to convince rm that it's a file, not an argument.
One way of doing this is:

	rm ./-f2

-derek

"Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> No. Bash does not parse the -f20, rm does. Bash does expand wild 
> cards, such as * and ?.
> On 26 Oct 2000, at 13:55, Roger Day wrote:
> 
> > Try 
> > rm  '-f2'
> > 
> > bash is interpreting the "-" as a parameter to rm thus 2 is invalid.
> 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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