Karey Weston 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
>
> Try this (works with bash on BSD...Linux should be the same)
>
> rm -rf \-f \-q
>
> Make sure you are in bash...the backslashes escape the - and take it as a
> literal.
That won't work. The dashes are significant to "rm", not the shell.
The backslashes will be removed by the shell, and won't affect the
arguments which "rm" sees.
I have no idea why this would work on BSD; bash is bash, regardless of
the underlying OS.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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