[aprssig] Help removing a nasty file

Andrew Rich vk4tec at tech-software.net
Sun Sep 25 03:44:41 EDT 2005


Come on mate, if I read the manual I would be professional.

In keeping with my fore fathers, in the spirit of amateur radio I took plan B

Take a stab in the dark

On Sunday 25 September 2005 16:28, VE7GDH wrote:
> Andrew VK4TEC wrote on Sept 24 2005
> 
> > > rm -- -size
> 
> > what does a double negative do ?
> 
> To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one 
> of these commands:
> 
>    rm -- -foo
>    rm ./-foo
> 
> (Hint... man rm - hi)
> 
> 73 es cul - Keith VE7GDH
> --
> "I may be lost, but I know exactly where I am!"
> 
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