Re: deleting file '--preserve-permissions'
- From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:53:42 +0200
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:36:03PM +0300, lalev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've made mistake with tar. Something like
tar cvfz --preserve-permissions home.tgz *
or
tar cvfz --preserve-permissions * home.tgz
As result I have a file with name '--preserve-permissions'.
It seems that it's not easy to delete this file.
rm '--preserve-permissions'
does not give the desired result.
What should I do :-)
You should read the rm(1) man-page.
Especially the part that says:
NOTE
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
The same behavior can be obtained by using an absolute or relative path
reference. For example:
rm /home/user/-filename
rm ./-filename
--
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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