zfs discuss - Nov 2011 - grrr, How to get rid of mis-touched file named `-c'

Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~.  Experimenting
with something I''ve now forgotten I guess.

Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.

I''ve tried as many styles of escaping as I could come up with but all
are rejected like this:

  rm \-c 
  rm: illegal option -- c
  usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...

Ditto for:

  [\-]c
  ''-c''
  *c
  ''-''c
 \075c

OK, I''m out of escapes.  or other tricks... other than using emacs but
I haven''t installed emacs as yet.

I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
shell prompt.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 14:43, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>
wrote:
> Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~. ?Experimenting
> with something I''ve now forgotten I guess.
>
> Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.
>
> I''ve tried as many styles of escaping as I could come up with but
all
> are rejected like this:
>
> ?rm \-c
> ?rm: illegal option -- c
> ?usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
>
> Ditto for:
>
> ?[\-]c
> ?''-c''
> ?*c
> ?''-''c
> ?\075c
>
> OK, I''m out of escapes. ?or other tricks... other than using emacs
but
> I haven''t installed emacs as yet.
>
> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
> shell prompt.
rm ./-O ./-c ./-k
or pass an entire path.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| On 2011-11-23 13:43:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
| 
| Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~.  Experimenting
| with something I''ve now forgotten I guess.
| 
| Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.

Use ''--'' to denote the end of arguments.

  $ uname -a
  SunOS lab 5.10 Generic_142910-17 i86pc i386 i86pc
  $ touch -- -c
  $ ls -l
  total 1
  -rw-r--r--   1 bda      bda            0 Nov 23 15:25 -c
  $ rm -- -c
  $ ls -l
  total 0

Cheers.
-- 
bdha
cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.

Did you try rm -- filename ?

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~.  Experimenting
> with something I''ve now forgotten I guess.
> 
> Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.
> 
> I''ve tried as many styles of escaping as I could come up with but
all
> are rejected like this:
> 
>  rm \-c 
>  rm: illegal option -- c
>  usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
> 
> Ditto for:
> 
>  [\-]c
>  ''-c''
>  *c
>  ''-''c
> \075c
> 
> OK, I''m out of escapes.  or other tricks... other than using emacs
but
> I haven''t installed emacs as yet.
> 
> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
> shell prompt.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> zfs-discuss mailing list
> zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>
wrote:
> OK, I''m out of escapes. ?or other tricks... other than using emacs
but
> I haven''t installed emacs as yet.
>
> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
> shell prompt.
rm ./-c ./-O ./-k

-- 
Brandon High : bhigh at freaks.com

[...]

Harry wrote:
>> ?rm \-c
>> ?rm: illegal option -- c
>> ?usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
>>
>> Ditto for:
>>
>> ?[\-]c
>> ?''-c''
>> ?*c
>> ?''-''c
>> ?\075c
>>
>> OK, I''m out of escapes. ?or other tricks... other than using
emacs but
>> I haven''t installed emacs as yet.
>>
>> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
>> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
>> shell prompt.
Will Murnane <will.murnane at gmail.com> writes:
> rm ./-O ./-c ./-k
> or pass an entire path.
Bryan Horstmann-Allen <bda at mirrorshades.net> writes:

[...]
>
> Use ''--'' to denote the end of arguments.
>
[...]

Brandon High <bhigh at freaks.com> writes:

[...]
> rm ./-c ./-O ./-k
Thanks folks.  Both techniques work without fail.  Its always
something easy and usually the needed info is already flopping around
somewhere in my brain, but not put together.

On 11/26/2011 5:30 AM, Brandon High wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Harry Putnam<reader at newsguy.com>
wrote:
>> OK, I''m out of escapes.  or other tricks... other than using
emacs but
>> I haven''t installed emacs as yet.
>>
>> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
>> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
>> shell prompt.
> rm ./-c ./-O ./-k
And many versions of getopt support the use of -- as the "end of
options"
indicator so that you can do

rm -- -c -O -k

to remove those as well.

Gregg Wonderly

You could list by inode, then use find with rm.

# ls -i
7223 -O

# find . -inum 7223 -exec rm {} \;

David

On 11/23/11 2:00 PM, "Jason King (Gmail)" <jason.brian.king at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> Did you try rm -- filename ?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>
wrote:
> 
>> Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~.  Experimenting
>> with something I''ve now forgotten I guess.
>> 
>> Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.
>> 
>> I''ve tried as many styles of escaping as I could come up with
but all
>> are rejected like this:
>> 
>>  rm \-c 
>>  rm: illegal option -- c
>>  usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
>> 
>> Ditto for:
>> 
>>  [\-]c
>>  ''-c''
>>  *c
>>  ''-''c
>> \075c
>> 
>> OK, I''m out of escapes.  or other tricks... other than using
emacs but
>> I haven''t installed emacs as yet.
>> 
>> I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
>> installed, but by now I just want to know how it might be done from a
>> shell prompt.
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> zfs-discuss mailing list
>> zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
> _______________________________________________
> zfs-discuss mailing list
> zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Smith, David W. <smith107 at llnl.gov>
wrote:
> You could list by inode, then use find with rm.
>
> # ls -i
> 7223 -O
>
> # find . -inum 7223 -exec rm {} \;
This is the one solution I''d recommend against, since it would remove
hardlinks that you might care about.

Also, this thread is getting long, repetitive, tiring.  Please stop.
This is a standard issue Unix beginner question, just like "my test
program does nothing".

Nico
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