How to remove files with names containing "-"

[Dave Walley]

Hi.

I have managed to create a number of files containing the permissions in the name and have been unable to remove them the files are called as follows

-rw-rw----uat.000815:14:37

Any advice?.

Dave

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Use the backslash:
rm -

[Devbinder Singh Marway]

try rm -i * ( i for interactive) and reply
y to the files you want to delete

or you can do ls -li to get the inode numbers
and then use find / -inum (numbers) -exec rm {} ;

laters
Dev

[Victor BERRIDGE]

In your example it would be:
rm -rw*

[Stefan Farrelly]

To delete them use>

rm ./----14:32 etc.

(ie. put a fullstop followed by a forward slash before the filename)

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Try the following:

# cd directory
# find . -name "*rw*" -exec ls -l {} \;

if those are the files you want to delete, then do:

# find . -name "*rw*" -exec rm {} \;

You should also be able to specify the names in quotes to remove them
# rm "-rw-rw*ua*"

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Sorry the backslash doenst show up (?) so put the backslash before the minus sign...

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

You can use the -- argument to rm (as well as a lot of other commands) to indicate to the program that the rest of the arguments are not command options. E.g.

rm -- -rw*