deleting a file named "--exclude"
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? # ls -la total 1648 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 642617 Sep 27 13:54 --exclude drwxr-xr-x 15 karl users 4096 Oct 13 20:16 . drwxr-xr-x 4 karl users 4096 Oct 11 18:17 .. drwxr-xr-x 7 karl users 4096 Sep 27 13:59 .svn # rm -i * rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for more information. # rm -f "--exclude" rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for more information. # rm -f \-\-exclude rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for more information. -- -- Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
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"
# rm -i * rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
the shell expanded * to include --exclude which reads as an option.
# rm -f "--exclude" rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
ditto.
# rm -f \-\-exclude rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
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Thanks, Actually i figured it out after doing some RTFM rm --help even showed how to do it. 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"
# rm -i * rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
the shell expanded * to include --exclude which reads as an option.
# rm -f "--exclude" rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
ditto.
# rm -f \-\-exclude rm: unrecognized option `--exclude'
ditto.
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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
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 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
No. Unix shells expands everything on the command line before running the program. So "rm *exclude" and "rm ??exclude" expand to "rm --exclude". The program cannot tell that the "--exclude" was expanded from wildcard values. Quoting Jim Dibb <jimdibb@gmail.com>:
Doesn't rm ??exclude, or rm *exclude work, if you only have the one file with exclude in it?
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:58:30AM -0400, Jim Dibb wrote:
Doesn't rm ??exclude, or rm *exclude work, if you only have the one file with exclude in it?
No, because the shell will expand it to --exclude before passing it to the application which will then see it as an option. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Memory error on Brain1 - R)boot, S)mack upside the head.
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