[CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

Garl Grigsby badd_karma at comcast.net
Tue Jan 22 16:56:45 UTC 2008


Eric B. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got an odd situation here.  Somehow, I find myself with two files that 
> start with the - character.
> [eric at apollo mysql]$ ls -l
> total 93348
> -rw-r--r--  1 mysql mysql  9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08
> -rw-r--r--  1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13 19:02 --newer=2007-11-08
>
>
>   
rm -- --newer=2007-11-08
rm -- -N=2007-11-08
That is rm space dash dash space then the filename.

Garl



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