weird question

neologic · 09-29-2007, 03:37 PM

Please, anyone knows how can I remove "--help" file with rm?

I created it when I tried to read --help screen of "import" from imagemagick

bigrigdriver · 09-29-2007, 03:40 PM

If rm is refusing to remove the file because of the lead hyphens, try renaming the file, then rm it.

neologic · 09-29-2007, 03:47 PM

Thanks, it works, but is there any way to remove such file without renaming it ? I'm just curious

Su-Shee · 09-29-2007, 04:30 PM

Try:

rm -- weirdfilename

That disables interpreting - and -- as command line options - everything after the -- is considered part of the filename.

jay73 · 09-29-2007, 08:48 PM

this works too:
rm ./--help

And quite often it can be made to work by surrounding the file with quotation marks.

Samotnik · 09-30-2007, 03:44 AM

Or use backslash.