rm can do this: rm ./-C -- Regards, Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com <http://blog.tanelpoder.com/> _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of vikram singh Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 02:04 To: freelists Subject: Unable to del an OS file with special char - need ideas Hi All, I have this file by name '-C' created by mistake. I am unable to delete this. Any ideas? [oraapp@greece app]# ls -l total 457636 -rw-r--r-- 1 oraapp oraapp 435824640 Oct 4 2007 -C -rw------- 1 oraapp oraapp 32271367 Oct 4 2007 nohup.out How can i delete the '-C' file?