Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:17:28 +0100 (BST) From: Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk> To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... Message-ID: <20021013151607.G36558-100000@freebsd.rf0.com> In-Reply-To: <004101c272c2$b27b1d70$1500a8c0@dogbert>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Brian McCann wrote: > I've got an interesting question for you all. I've got a file who's > name is " "...3 blank spaces. It shows up when I do an ls -la, and I > can get it's inode # (it's in RedHat...a box I'm going to convert to > FreeBSD real soon)...does anyone know how to remove a file based off of > an inode #? > > --Brian McCann Have you tried rm " " ? I've just tried it on my box bash-2.05# touch " " bash-2.05# ls -ld " " -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 13 13:13 bash-2.05# rm " " bash-2.05# ls -ld " " ls: : No such file or directory Rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog http://shells.fsck.me.uk - Hosting how you want it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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