[CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

Ahhh...that's the ticket!

Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of John R. Dennison
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 9:48 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes
> 
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:44:57AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> > How can I remove this file?
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root    root       28707 Mar 31 12:31 --backup=numbered
> >
> >
> >
> > I've tried a few different methods, but most attempts interprets the
> > file name as a switch (which it doesn't understand).
> 
> rm -- --backup=numbered
> 
> -- stops the processing of command line arguments so any file name
after will
> be interpreted literally.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 							John
> --
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> 
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