Re: deleting file '--preserve-permissions'



try:
rm -i *

only answer y to the one you want deleted.

-Derek


At 02:36 PM 3/31/2007, 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 :-)

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