under windows-ntfs if you special characters in a filename… you can get into trouble deleting them (from command prompt it should always work)
under linux-ext3 you can run into similar problems if a filename (for whatever reason) contains “–” (two minuses)
to remove them go:
# under linux it is possible to have some very special file names like: # create file with special chars in filename touch -- ?[?1049lVim: rm -rf "?[?1049lVim:"; # will not work rm -rf '?[?1049lVim:'; # will not work # works rm -- ?[?1049lVim: rm: remove regular empty file ‘\033[?1049lVim:’? y # create file with special chars in filename touch -- --testings.html # another example rm -- --testings.html
The — option tells rm to treat all further arguments as file names, not as options, even if they start with -.
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