From: Bruce Harvey (BruceH@ROUTESCAPE.COM)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 13:48:46 EST
If written properly, a program using the 'getopt()' routines will stop
processing command line options when you include '--' as an option. It is a
flag to do just what you want. Therefore, 'rm -- -t' should work
just fine.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 1:34 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: [aix-l] -t file
Hello all,
A user on one of our AIX systems has somehow managed
to create a file called "-t". I've gone through my bag
of tricks trying to remove it, but I can't seem to
delete it. In fact, the only way that I can even do a
listing of the file is with 'ls -l'. Here is what the
file looks like:
soms01dx root /
> ls -l
total 92248
-rw-r--r-- 1 garneem quest 9729 Mar 17 12:29 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root quest 1988 Mar 17 12:29 qdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 garneem quest 1196 Mar 17 12:21 -t
Does anyone have any idea how to get rid of this file?
Thanks!
-Stephen Spalding
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