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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:57:13 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
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
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> 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)?

rm -- -p