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Re: [OT] Linux snafoo

• Posted by Greg Haberek <g.haberek at comcast.net> Feb 25, 2003
• 421 views

nope, same error..


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] Linux snafoo



On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:05:46 -0500, Greg Haberek <g.haberek at comcast.net> 
wrote:

>
> silly linux, 'del' is for windows!
>
> please forgive me, I'm very new to Linux and this may be a trivial issue, 
> but I was wondering if
> those of you fluent in this wonderful OS could help me... somehow, 
> probably by my own mistake,
> tar ran into an error, and left a file called "-xvz.tgz" and when I try 
> to rm it, I get an
> error..
>
> rm: invalid option -- x
>
> how do I delete this file? (mv returns the same error) obviously it 
> thinks I'm trying to pass a
> parameter, not a file name
>

Try  ...

  rm *xvz.tgz

-- 

cheers,
Derek Parnell



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