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From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Subject: Re: wierd files appearing in my directory structure
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To: taco@mad.scientist.com
Cc: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> --
> "Hey!  Who took the cork off my lunch??!"
>                 -- W. C. Fields
> 
> Todd Hansen, KD6YPS
> http://sehplib.ucsd.edu/~tshansen/
> 
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