Re: dir ~

From: Joshua Tinnin (krinklyfig_at_spymac.com)
Date: 03/01/05

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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:27:11 -0800

    On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:18 pm, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
    wrote:
    > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:33, Xavier Maillard wrote:
    > > My best bet on this issue is to list this by inode -i.e. ls -i
    > > and then track this inode using the inum switch of the find
    > > command to delete the item.
    >
    > Ouch. "rm -- fileWithWeirdName" is usually a lot easier. For
    > example, if you create a file named "-", then "rm -- -" will get rid
    > of it.

    I don't think this will work in his example. The man page explains it
    like this:

    The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to
    accept the `--' option which will cause it to stop processing flag
    options at that point. This will allow the removal of file names that
    begin with a dash (`-'). For example:
               rm -- -filename

    So, `--' only causes it to stop processing flag options, not shell
    expansion. `~' is not a marker for a flag.

    - jt
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