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| author | Heikki Korpela <heko@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-08-13 21:00:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Heikki Korpela <heko@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-08-13 21:00:06 +0000 |
| commit | 9c41801b72d10c481b58bf23758a0468295df595 (patch) | |
| tree | 11bf03fdaa87c137d54b50619cbde2c796f37c93 /bin/rm/rm.1 | |
| parent | 03c9bddb9308a1b95d909bbee2140f4a0d15acf8 (diff) | |
Document how to remove or rename a file that is a getopt(3) flag
to mv(1) or rm(1) by preceding it with --.
From ho@: Also give a sample of the ./-f way that is more portable
ok millert@, ho@
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/rm/rm.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/rm/rm.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/rm/rm.1 b/bin/rm/rm.1 index cf282149a4b..2df0bbc8ed6 100644 --- a/bin/rm/rm.1 +++ b/bin/rm/rm.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: rm.1,v 1.13 2001/06/08 13:41:21 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: rm.1,v 1.14 2001/08/13 21:00:05 heko Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: rm.1,v 1.8 1995/07/25 19:37:30 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994 @@ -138,6 +138,12 @@ exits with a value >0. Recursively remove all files contained within the .Pa foobar directory hierarchy. +.Pp +.Cm rm -- -f , +.Cm rm ./-f +.Pp +Either of these commands will remove the file +.Pa -f . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr rmdir 1 , .\" .Xr undelete 2 , |