Is it screw with your admin day?

[Eric Oyen]

Put quotes around it. That’s how I handle any filename with strange characters or something that happens to match a flag for a particular CLI utility or 2.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Debugging and Revisions Dept.


> On Nov 1, 2019, at 6:56 PM, Seabass <PrivateSeaBass at pm.me> wrote:
> 
> I suddenly found the folder “-p” in my home directory, one day...
> 
> “ ls -p”
> -p/
> 
> “ ls -p/”
> / is not a flag option
> 
> ”ls *”
> -p
> 
> “ls */*”
> No file nor directory...
> 
> “rm -p”
> -p isn’t a flag
> 
> So....
> I dunno about you guys, but this sucked figuring out how to handle.
> It can be removed with
> “rm -r ./-p/“
> But everything else makes it into a flag.
> 
> Moral of the story:
> If a file like “-a” shows up and it’s existence bothers you,
> DON’T TRY REMOVING IT WITHOUT 
> “./“ or some other path behind it!
> 
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