Bug 112599

Summary:	can not delete a file with "-" as a first character
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ulrich Lange <email>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	HP
OS:	All
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Description Ulrich Lange 2005-08-23 23:15:33 UTC

by example:
create a file with command: tgz --help
a file with name --help.tgz will be created.
try to erase the file with rm *.tgz
rm: unrecognized option `--help.tgz' is the failure message
with mv, cat ... it is the same.
the command: > --help.tgz is working

Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2005-08-24 05:30:30 UTC

please read a good unix book, this is a FAQ.  
  
To delete files starting with - , use:  
rm -- *.tgz