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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Never seen this before
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:40:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:04:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Somehow my browser tried to download every single message in my inbox.
[snip]

> rm crashed on a file that allegedly began with a minus, but the 
> suggested workaround didn't work. (rm '-[blah].eml.part)

ITYM either
  rm ./-[blah].eml.part
or
  rm -- -[blah].eml.part

[snip]

-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"