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How to delete a file named -x

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Name: pkm_icf
Date: June 18, 2002 at 03:20:20 Pacific
Subject: How to delete a file named -x

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Pl hlp how to delete a file named -x

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Response Number 1

Name: frank
Date: June 18, 2002 at 03:53:13 Pacific
Subject: How to delete a file named -x

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hi,
a lot of possibility depending on which os.
you can do rm - -x
rm -i * {and confirm only the -x file }
No RISK no fun
Regards Frank

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Response Number 2

Name: frank
Date: June 18, 2002 at 03:54:36 Pacific
Subject: How to delete a file named -x

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Hi again,
only to make sure that you see the amount of spaces.
rm SPACE - SPACE -x
Regrads Frank

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Response Number 3

Name: LANkrypt0
Date: June 18, 2002 at 06:37:43 Pacific
Subject: How to delete a file named -x

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Taken directly from the man pages of rm
> man rm
Users often wonder how to deal with filenames that begin with ``-'', since arguments that begin with ``-'' are usually treated as flags. The special argument ``--'' tells programs not to interpret following arguments as flags. (This is also the case for most system utilities.) Thus, to delete a file named ``-foo'', type:
rm -- -foo

So the short answer:
rm -- -x

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