Re: removing wierd files

From: Adam Garside (asg_at_gimp.shacknet.nu)
Date: 10/21/04

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    On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
    > CW Harris wrote:
    [Snip]
    > thank you for the info. anyone know what the '--' option sigifies? I
    > notice it's not really documented in the man page.
    > m
    '--' instructs most utilities to stop parsing command options and treat
    everything after as just input. In the case of 'rm', '--' says basically
    that anything after that will be treated as a file to be removed.

    -- asg 

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