On Wednesday 18 October 2006 15:44, Ian Malone wrote: > Peter Gordon wrote: > > Yuandan Zhang wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I incidantly created file named as '--min-size=8'. In fact, I don't know > >> how it was created. I have difficulty to remove it using "rm -rf > >> \--min-size=8 or other ways? > > <snip solution> > > > Alternatively, you can escape every hyphen and equals sign within the > > file name: $ rm -i \-\-min\-size\=8 > > Will this actually work? Doesn't bash eat the escapes before rm > sees them? > > -- > imalone try this: $ rm -i * answer no for all files in the dir except for the one you want to delete or something like rm -i *size*
