rm a file with name '--min-size=8'

Yuandan Zhang yuandan.zhang at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 23:11:20 UTC 2006


On 19/10/06, Yuandan Zhang <yuandan.zhang at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 19/10/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Peter Gordon wrote:
> > > Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I incidantly created file named as '--min-size=8'. In fact, I don't
> > know how
> > >> it was created. I have difficulty to remove it using "rm -rf
> > \--min-size=8
> > >> or other ways?
> > >
> >
> > <snip solution>
> >
> > >
> > > Alternatively, you can escape every hyphen and equals sign within the
> > file name:
> > > $ rm -i \-\-min\-size\=8
> > >
> >
> > Will this actually work?  Doesn't bash eat the escapes before rm
> > sees them?
> >
> > --
> > imalone
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> this file is on another PC, I can't access it (due to firewall) now.  I
> will update the outcmes.
> thanks for replies
>
>
> Both of the follwoing work:

rm dir/--min-size=8  eg rm ~/--min-size=8

rm -- --sin-size=8

Thanks for fixes
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