Deleting a nippy file

[taminglis]

Hi Troops,

Somehow I managed to create a file in /some/dir/ called "-v"

How can I remove it?

I've tried various and many methods... rm, rm *v, moving all files except that one and then issuing rm -rf but the problem is the -v file is being taken for a switch huh.

Any suggestions, this is driving me nutzola

Regards

Tam

[lomcevak]

Try specifying the full pathname.

rm -fv /some/dir/-v

[Ziplock]

Hi there,

This page has the answer:

UNIX man pages : rm ()

In particular:

 To  remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of these commands:

rm -- -foo

rm ./-foo

[taminglis]

Cheers guys.

I used lomcevak solution simply as it was the one I saw first and was email alerted to but thanks to ziplock too, I'll remember both methods.

Kindest thanks

Tam

[Ziplock]

Glad to help.