echo hello > -f (how do i delete it)

erick.szekely · 10-07-2008, 02:25 PM

how do i delete a file when it was created like this,
my instructor had us create it and now we have to delete it

Total-MAdMaN · 10-07-2008, 02:29 PM

Asking for help with schoolwork isn't allowed.

erick.szekely · 10-07-2008, 02:40 PM

its not school work
the test is over and now i want to know how to do it

Total-MAdMaN · 10-07-2008, 02:55 PM

Why not ask your teacher?

fberbert · 10-07-2008, 04:36 PM

Try:

rm -- -f

The trick is the "--" after the rm command.

cygnal · 10-08-2008, 10:06 AM

You can do:

Code:

rm -- -f

(as stated above) or

Code:

rm "-f"

or

Code:

rm \-f

In the first case, the '--' tells the initial command, rm, that there are no more switches for it and what follows is a file name.

In the second, you're using simple double-quote enclosure of the file name.

In the last, you're using the backslash character to escape the special meaning of the '-' so that the shell sees it as just a printable character with no special significance.

erick.szekely · 10-08-2008, 10:44 AM

thanks so very much!!