Re: How to delete a special directory

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To: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How to delete a special directory
From: Scott Pack <spack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:33:45 -0500
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M?rio Gamito [gamito@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> I've accidently created two directories: -f and -q
> 
> Now, i can't remove them with rm -rf -f -q
> I get an error.
> 

Try giving the full path name to the directory.  Such as,
rm -rdf ./-f ./-q




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