From: Karey Weston <kweston@innerwall.com>
To: Scott Pack <spack@cs.ohiou.edu>, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to delete a special directory
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:01:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1F1DAF5.E66F%kweston@innerwall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070209143345.GB8710@crichton>
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Try this (works with bash on BSD...Linux should be the same)
rm -rf \-f \-q
Make sure you are in bash...the backslashes escape the - and take it as a
literal.
Cheers
wes
On 2/9/07 7:33 AM, "Scott Pack" <spack@cs.ohiou.edu> wrote:
> M?rio Gamito [gamito@gmail.com] wrote:
>> I've accidently created two directories: -f and -q
>>
>> Now, i can't remove them with rm -rf -f -q
>> I get an error.
>>
>
> Try giving the full path name to the directory. Such as,
> rm -rdf ./-f ./-q
>
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> S.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-09 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-09 14:29 How to delete a special directory Mário Gamito
2007-02-09 14:33 ` Scott Pack
2007-02-09 15:01 ` Karey Weston [this message]
2007-02-09 16:59 ` Glynn Clements
2007-02-09 17:15 ` Darío Mariani
2007-02-09 18:07 ` Glynn Clements
2007-02-09 14:35 ` Florian Klien
[not found] ` <200702090934.43065.doug@hunley.homeip.net>
2007-02-09 17:22 ` Mário Gamito
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