how to remove the file name "-."?

[Hanry Zhou]

(dash and point)

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Hanry:

# rm -i -- -.

Note that the double dashes signal the end of flags and thus the '-.' is the file to remove as you asked.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

# rm -- -.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Jeff_Traigle]

If you look at the examples in the rm(1) man page, it'll show you how... basically give the full path to the file...

rm /full/path/-.

[Jonathan Fife]

If you give two dashes in a standard command it will stop looking for arguments. Thus the following should work:

rm -- -.

[Sandman!]

rm -- ./-.

"--" turn off option processing so that rm doesn't get confused between an option and a filename that starts with a dash.

[Bill Hassell]

The simplest is just:

cd /problem_directory
rm ./-

The ./ is a shorthand for the current directory and separates the - from option processing.

[Arturo Galbiati]

rm -- -.

HTH,
Art

[Emil Velez]

bring up /usr/dt/bin/dtfile and do mousercise.

It should work

[Dan Phelps_1]

It should be possible to do so by enclosing the filename in double quotes.

Such as

rm "-."

[bhargavi]

try this command
rm ./-.
Its working.

[bhargavi]

its (point slash dash point)
rm ./-.

[Dennis Handly]

>Dan: It should be possible to do so by enclosing the filename in double quotes. rm "-."

No, this won't work since the shell removes the quotes when passing it to rm(1).