Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 20:09:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: taco@mad.scientist.com Cc: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wierd files appearing in my directory structure Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980218200813.13413A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218165707.1910A-100000@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu>
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You can try using the csh or tcsh command completion to do it...else I
think if you give the command:
rm -- <filename>
That will work. But try command completion first.
Joe Clarke
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Todd 'Taco' Hansen wrote:
> thanks. I will look into my login scripts.
> btw, the commands you gave me to remove the files don't work. Which seems
> wierd to me. Here is there output.
>
> jaguar: {4} rm ?000*
> rm: illegal option -- 0
> usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRr] file ...
> jaguar: {5} rm "-000277"
> rm: illegal option -- 0
> usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRr] file ...
> jaguar: {6}
>
> thanks.
> -taco
>
> > > ---------------------
> > > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 17 01:10 -000224
> > > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 22 18:41 -000238
> > > -rw------- 1 taco wheel 226 Jan 22 14:06 -000241
> >
> > Those look like lost inodes or a script file gone nuts. You can probably
> > remove them if you quote the filename or use a wildcard.
> >
> > rm ?000*
> >
> > The times look like login times -- can you find a relation there?
> >
> > Doug White | University of Oregon
> > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
> > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
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> -- W. C. Fields
>
> Todd Hansen, KD6YPS
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>
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