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edited Jan 22, 2021 at 11:10

In my case, it turned out I was attempting to delete a whole lot of .zip.zip files with dashes in their names.

'man rm'man rm mentions using '--'-- to prevent the command from processing further options.

rm -rf -- *.zip

Did the trick.

In my case, it turned out I was attempting to delete a whole lot of .zip files with dashes in their names.

'man rm' mentions using '--' to prevent the command from processing further options.

rm -rf -- *.zip

Did the trick.

In my case, it turned out I was attempting to delete a whole lot of .zip files with dashes in their names.

man rm mentions using -- to prevent the command from processing further options.

rm -rf -- *.zip

Did the trick.

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answered Jan 21, 2021 at 21:56

In my case, it turned out I was attempting to delete a whole lot of .zip files with dashes in their names.

'man rm' mentions using '--' to prevent the command from processing further options.

rm -rf -- *.zip

Did the trick.