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Never create a file named "-rf *" unless you really plan on keeping it.
rm ./—rf\ \*Am I missing something?
I'm not sure that you belong in this thread :)
I'm not going to try it but... rm "./-rf *" would do the same? rm "./-rf \*" maybe?
Couldn’t get single quotes to type on my phone, but best to always use them for problems like that, to completely get rid of shell interference.
I always forget about the single quotes.
If you do want to try, just start a docker container and try inside there. That should negate all risk
if you use fish you can tab-cycle tour way to the file
rm ./-rf
I've been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn't know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.
I didn't believe '*' is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it's insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.
Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that?
It's backslashes all the way down
Just use double backslashes for each backslash