Hiten, I think the only option here is to give rm * and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.

Anil

--- Manish Jethani manishj@zycus.com wrote:

Hiten Desai wrote:

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I am trying to delete directory with the following name --@app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis) but when I am trying to delete it with rm -rf command it gives me error : rm: unrecognized option '--@app.7'

rm -rf -- --@app.7

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:02:17 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in wrote:

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anil Mare wrote:

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I think the only option here is to give rm * and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.

please, read the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is over 30 years old. you'd think there were many others who came across this problem.

AFAIK, some systems have rm aliased to rm -i by default. Red Hat has it done for root. I think Mandrake has it for all users. (It's that way on sourceforge and sourceforge uses Mandrake, hence the not-so-solid inference).

It wud have been better if u wud have answered the members query, rather than critizing others.

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anil Mare wrote:

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I think the only option here is to give rm * and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.

please, read the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is over 30 years old. you'd think there were many others who came across this problem.

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 02:59:05AM -0700, Anil Mare wrote:

It wud have been better if u wud have answered the members query, rather than critizing others.

Actually, this would apply more to you! :)

Philip did the right thing by pointing out the possible disasters with that particular "solution".

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Naren Devaiah wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^ <snip>

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error : rm: unrecognized option '--@app.7'

how to delete this directory ??

rm -rf --@app.7 or rm -rf '--@app.7'

-Naren

I guess Naren solutions will not work. Naren have you ever tried these solutions before? Use any one of the following.

rm -rf -- --@app.7/ rm -rf -- --@aap.7/ rm -rf ./--@app.7/ rm -rf ./--@app.7/