[CentOS] Re: has something happened to grep

In article 482D8875.1050709@pagestation.com, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

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Do you have a file name that starts with a "-" in your directory?

Mogens

Yes I do actually. There is a -f filename of which I dont need.

I tried rm *f and it is not removing it. No what?

Ouch! That may well have deleted any other files with a name ending in f, while leaving the file -f still there!

[tony@softins tmp]$ touch ./-f ae af ag be bf bg [tony@softins tmp]$ ls -f ae af ag be bf bg [tony@softins tmp]$ echo *f -f af bf [tony@softins tmp]$ rm *f [tony@softins tmp]$ ls -f ae ag be bg

Easiest way to remove the file -f is: rm ./-f

Cheers Tony