Doesn't rm ??exclude, or rm *exclude work, if you only have the one file with exclude in it?
On 10/14/05, Mike Frysinger <
vapier@gentoo.org> wrote: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:
> > 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
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