Remove file start with special character

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December 5th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Common, mv, rm, touch | Hits: 10416 |

In linux, file can be any name, including “–testing”. If you have a file with this name, how you delete it?

Command line bellow will fail,

rm --testing

The correct one is

rm ./--testing

This works for mv, cp etc. So you can actually create a file with name “–testing” using touch.

touch ./--testing

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durian Says:
December 6th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Alternatively, you can use
```
rm -- --testing
touch -- --testing
```
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