remove folder ---thing---

[tennea9]

Hello everyone,

Still learning FreeBSD, I was wondering how to remove a folder named : ---thing---
I used rm -r but I don't understand how not to make understand --- as options but as part of the folder name
Can someone help me ?

 

[rigoletto@]

Se rm(1) NOTES for details: rm -rf -- ---thing---

 

[SirDice]

Lots of commands use getopt(3), so the -- will make it stop processing options, thus won't try to 'translate' a file/directory with a name like ---thing--- as an option.

 

[covacat]

or rm./--

 

[a6h]

Find the inode of the directory and/or file:
ls -i

INODE_NUMBER ---thing---

find . -inum INODE_NUMBER -delete

Note:
If you're going to delete a directory with that method, the directory should be empty.

 

[tennea9]

Wahouuh.. Fantastic !! thank you very much !

 

[grahamperrin]

or rm./--

Expanded a little:

% pwd
/tmp
% find . -name "*thing*" -print
./---thing---
% rm -r ./---thing---/
% find . -name "*thing*" -print
%

… rm(1) NOTES …

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