Re: [Wlug] deleting a file named "--exclude"

On Friday 14 October 2005 07:12 am, Theo Van Dinter wrote:

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:25:24PM +0200, Karl Hiramoto wrote:

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hey guys, this would seem rather basic. How to delete a file, but i have a problem. I want to delete a file called "--exclude". Any ideas?

Heh. I used to ask this on interviews. ;)

"rm -- --exclude"

although most tools nowadays support --, you could also do: rm ./--exclude -mike