Removing a file named "--hi"

[Manuales]

Hi ..
for error, i created a file named "--hi"
instead of "hi" ..
how can i delete it?

i'm aplying :
rm "--hi"
and appears:
rm: illegal option -- -
rm: illegal option -- h
rm: illegal option -- i

thanks, Manuales

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

try this

rm -- --hi


Pete

[Geoff Wild]

Try

rm \-\-hi

or remove via the inum

See

http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/troubleshooting/os/unix/1231/


Rgds...Geoff

[A. Clay Stephenson]

rm -- --hi

The "--" tells the command that no further options are to be processed so that "-" has no further significance. The is a standard convention for UNIX commands because it is built into the getopts() library function.

[Rodney Hills]

Or try-

rm ./--hi

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Manuales]

THANKS ALL!!!
IT WORKED !!!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!
:0)

Manuales.

[Prasad Joshi]

There are many ways to remove this type of file, I am listing some of them

Get the INODE number===> ls -i
# ls -i
3232 -hi

1. for f in `find . -inum 3232`
do
rm -i $f
done

2. rm -i `find . -inum 3232`

3. find . -inum 3232 -ok rm {} \;

4. rm ./-hi

5. rm $PWD/-hi

6. rm -- -hi


Regards.
Prasad

[Manuales]

Thanks Prassad for your attention to answer even have been closed this issue ...

really, thank you very much ... i'd like give you points but i can not do it because i do not have the option to do it because it's a closed issue.

THANKS ...
Manuales.

[Pete Randall]

Actually, just so you know, Mauales, you can re-open the thread, assign points, then close the thread again!


Pete