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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to delete directories prefixed with a dash
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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)?
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