removing a file with hyphens

[Simon Dick]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 11:32 +0100, Paul Orrock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So for reasons I won't go into I ended up with a file like this
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 paulo paulo       0 2007-05-21 14:23 -----Original
> 
> which I didn't want, so I tried the following :
> 
> paulo at kryten:~$ rm *riginal
> rm: unrecognised option `-----Original'
> Try `rm --help' for more information.
> paulo at kryten:~$ mv '\-\-\-\-\-Original' old
> mv: cannot stat `\\-\\-\\-\\-\\-Original': No such file or directory
> paulo at kryten:~$ mv '-----Original' old
> mv: unrecognised option `-----Original'
> Try `mv --help' for more information.
> paulo at kryten:~$ mv \-\-\-\-\-Original old
> mv: unrecognised option `-----Original'
> Try `mv --help' for more information.
> paulo at kryten:~$ mv "\-\-\-\-\-Original" old
> mv: cannot stat `\\-\\-\\-\\-\\-Original': No such file or directory
> paulo at kryten:~$ rm '\-\-\-\-\-Original'
> rm: cannot remove `\\-\\-\\-\\-\\-Original': No such file or directory
> 
> Then I tried unlink('-----Original') using perl and it worked fine.
> 
> I'm glad that it did but I'm curious as to why ?
> 
> My second question is how do non perl people do it ?
> 
> So I thought I would ask you brainy people :-)

rm -- -----Original