<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 19/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Malone</b> <<a href="mailto:ibmalone@gmail.com">ibmalone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Peter Gordon wrote:<br>> Yuandan Zhang wrote:<br>>> Hi,<br>>> I incidantly created file named as '--min-size=8'. In fact, I don't know how<br>>> it was created. I have difficulty to remove it using "rm -rf \--min-size=8
<br>>> or other ways?<br>><br><br><snip solution><br><br>><br>> Alternatively, you can escape every hyphen and equals sign within the file name:<br>> $ rm -i \-\-min\-size\=8<br>><br><br>Will this actually work? Doesn't bash eat the escapes before rm
<br>sees them?<br><br>--<br>imalone</blockquote><div><br> </div>this file is on another PC, I can't access it (due to firewall) now. I will update the outcmes.<div><br>thanks for replies<br> <br></div><br></div>