How does one use rm to delete a file named ‘–help’? When I try, it just shows the help prompt.
I ended up opening a file browser to delete it.
How does one use rm to delete a file named ‘–help’? When I try,
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How does one use rm to delete a file named ‘–help’? When I try, it just shows the help prompt.
I ended up opening a file browser to delete it.
Two approaches:
This latter approach is supported by many common UNIX tools (
--means “end of options” by convention, ie. that everything else will be a positional parameter), and is particularly handy in a script, when you don’t know what data you’ll be dealing with.