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Re: [OT] Linux snafoo

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

i've tried all these:

rm -xvz.tgz
rm "-xvz.tgz"
rm *.tgz    -- only .tgz file in the directory
mv -xvz.tgz temp.tgz  -- then rm temp.tgz

i tried rm -d on the directory, but that wont work either

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Linux snafoo



On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:21:03 -0500, Greg Haberek <g.haberek at comcast.net> 
wrote:

>
> nope, same error..
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:13 AM
> 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
>

Of course! My Unix is rusty too. The *xvz.tgz would be expanded by the 
shell into -xvz.tgz and you'd stillhave the error. So try escaping the file 
name like this...

  rm "-xvz.tgz"



-- 

cheers,
Derek Parnell



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