Re: [lug-nuts] FW: cool way to rm files

From: Harry Souders (gnulinux@rosecomputing.com)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 08:55:52 PST


On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:22:35AM -0800, Lancashire, Andrew wrote:
> How timely this all was. I had accidentally created a file from the output
> of another command. The file name was "-sT" (without the quotes
> obviously). I had tried several ways to delete it and could not. The one
> I used successfully was ls|xargs -n1 --interactive rm -- , thank you Harry
> Souders, it worked like a charm.

Glad to hear that it worked!

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