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From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com>
To: heikki soerum <heikkis@student.matnat.uio.no>
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, heikki soerum wrote:
> > zeus# rm "#pico29506#"
> > rm: #pico29506#: Bad file descriptor
> > zeus# whoami
> > root
>
> # is usually an special character, I usually delete such files with
> Midnight Commander (mc shell), another possibility might be to not use
> "" but rather use an \ backslash before every special character.

	I tried that first.  That didn't work, either.  :(

							Jaime