Weird Files...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

And don't forget emacs (or xemacs) dired. 
On 26 Oct 2000, at 9:42, Patrick McManus wrote:

> [Derek Atkins: Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:11:37AM -0400]
> > Right.. So you need to convince rm that it's a file, not an argument.
> > One way of doing this is:
> > 
> > 	rm ./-f2
> > 
> 
> yep.. from the "more than one way to skin a cat" school, everybody's
> got their favorites..
> 
> rm -- -f2
> 
> rm ?f2
> 
> rm -i * (interactive, so not for scripting.. but useful when you've
>          got a directory full of stuff due to a shell script gone
>          awry)
> 
> 
> int main (int c, char **v)
> {
>  unlink ("-f2");
> }


Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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