From: Don Bailey <dbailey27@ameritech.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to delete directories prefixed with a dash
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:55:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40CFD2A5.8050205@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84f5cde727c85591db7049828fdae03f@9netics.com>
rm ./-p
Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>I think i did a 'mkdir -p -m 777 xxx' , before either flag was supported
>and thus created a -p and a -m directory. I finally removed them by
>cd'ing to those dirs and doing a 'rm .';
>
>What's the quoting rule to get that type of name past the flags
>processing in rm (or anything else that has flags)?
>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-16 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-16 3:34 Skip Tavakkolian
2004-06-16 4:48 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-06-16 5:11 ` Don Bailey
2004-06-16 8:48 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-06-16 11:45 ` Russ Cox
2004-06-16 13:32 ` C H Forsyth
2004-06-16 13:45 ` boyd, rounin
2004-06-16 13:57 ` rog
2004-06-16 13:58 ` Dave Lukes
2004-06-16 15:01 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-06-18 9:38 ` Dave Lukes
2004-06-16 16:32 ` rog
2004-06-18 9:20 ` Dave Lukes
2004-06-17 9:05 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-06-16 22:37 ` Don Bailey
2004-06-16 23:56 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-06-16 4:55 ` Don Bailey [this message]
2004-06-16 4:57 ` Russ Cox
2004-06-16 5:39 ` Charles Forsyth
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