Ugly file name

Dave St. John stjohn at oswego.Oswego.EDU
Tue May 16 15:14:19 AEST 1989


In article <448 at hsi86.hsi.UUCP> derek at hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo) writes:
>
>This doesn't work for filenames that start with a minus. eg -badfile
>Anyone know how to erase such files with whipping up a short C program?

RTM, it says to use a - for file names that begin with a -.
So you would type
    % rm - -badfile

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