Thanks to all who replied... "rm -f -- --preserve-permissions" did the trick. Regards, Ruairi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colm Buckley" <colm at tuatha.org> To: "Ruairi Newman" <bofh at tech-mad.org>; "Irish Linux Users' Group" <ilug at linux.ie> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix