Aug
17

Geek amusement

Transcript of a recent conversation with a colleage:

Colleague: tar -cvf -X bar.txt foo-20050802.tar *
C: This command appears to be shite. It started to archive, but still added all 
the files in bar.txt and also created a file called ‘–X’ ! I must be doing something 
elementary wrong! What is it?
Me: syntax: tar -cvf <filename of archive> [other options]....
C: doh 
C: ta
* A short pause*
C: Er, any ideas of the best way to delete a file called ‘–X’ ?
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One Response to “Geek amusement”

  1. korenwolf says:
    August 17, 2005 at 11:10 am

    C: Er, any ideas of the best way to delete a file called ‘–X’ ?

    To which the correct response is “Yes and I’ll tell you one if you’re able to name the others…”