Stupid question...

[Dave Westland]

In article <29957 at hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt5223b at prism.gatech.EDU (Doug Berkland) writes:
|> Along the lines of hard to remove files... is there any way to remove
|> a file beginning with a - ?  Using \- doesn't get it... any ideas?

	A file called "-name" can be removed by the command :

rm - -name

	The first "-" tells rm to take the argument (very) literally.
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