Xchat : How to ignore another IRC user

Aragorn

If I'm not mistaken (and I may be), placing a dot-period (.) in front of a forward slash (-) just tells the command it's the *current-working-directory*...just as a (..) would mean the *parent* directory.

This technique is very useful when deleting files using the 'rm' command;

Filenames that begin with a hyphen (-) are a pain to rm - so the answer is one of two options;

Use one of these; $ rm -- -Filename or $ rm .--Filename

see $ man rm

To remove a file whose name starts with a `-', for example `-foo', use one of these commands:

rm -- -foo

rm .--foo

The ' .' designates the current directory. The 'rm --' preceding the hyphened filename tells the command 'rm' to stop looking for command 'options'.

Note; the ' .' can be used (everywhere?) - across platform 'shell' types(?) perhaps (csh, ksh, bash, ash), while the (--) is not necessarily POSIX compliant only(?). Sorry - very vague on the specifics of that one. One of the Linux scripting Gurus will hopefully stop in and correct my mistakes...thanks

I only bring this up, because I'm unfamiliar with IRC and stuff, and I would *suspect* perhaps using ("...") *Quotations*(?) might be best (if it works), since a leading (-) such as -comand-line-words (can possibly be used to either intentionally, or inadvertantly, designate a share on another host(?)).