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Re:The tale of aux.c by jovial_cavalier on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:36AM (#15337310)
By convention, when a unix program is passed "--" it means there are no more flags being passed. Try the following:

$ rm -- -

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Re:The tale of aux.c by ConfucianNardin on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:33AM (#15337515)
This will not work with all rm implementations, in which case you can fall back to: rm ./-
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Re:The tale of aux.c by zanchey on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:09AM (#15338264)
Oh, I can remove it... And a few hours or days later it's back!
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Re:The tale of aux.c by jovial_cavalier on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @10:06AM (#15338739)
Okay, you're gonna want to type $sudo crontab -e...
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Re:The tale of aux.c by codedokode on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:20PM (#15340076)
It is better to write EDITOR=nano sudo crontab ... otherwise instead of edititng the crontab you will be solving the problem of exiting vi.
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Re:The tale of aux.c by zanchey on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:47AM (#15345002)
All the interest encouraged me to dig in and find it, and it turned out to be in one of zsh's many startup scripts.
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