Re: How to delete a special directory

What about rm -rf "-r" "-f"?
If not, a file manager like Midnight Commander should do the trick.

On 2/9/07, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Karey Weston wrote:
>
> > >> I've accidently created two directories: -f and -q
> > >>
> > >> Now, i can't remove them with rm -rf -f -q
> > >> I get an error.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Try giving the full path name to the directory.  Such as,
> > > rm -rdf ./-f ./-q
> >
> > Try this (works with bash on BSD...Linux should be the same)
> >
> >  rm -rf \-f \-q
> >
> > Make sure you are in bash...the backslashes escape the - and take it as a
> > literal.
>
> That won't work. The dashes are significant to "rm", not the shell.
> The backslashes will be removed by the shell, and won't affect the
> arguments which "rm" sees.
>
> I have no idea why this would work on BSD; bash is bash, regardless of
> the underlying OS.
>
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> Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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