From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Jul  2 04:36:58 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04179
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 04:36:58 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA04155
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 04:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za)
Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2)
	id 0yrhf4-0001p1-00; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:36:22 +0200
Message-ID: <19980702133622.E6926@cityip.co.za>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:36:22 +0200
From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: HELP! How do I kill this file?
Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>,
	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
References: <359B3BF5.36D17CE0@ms11.hinet.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i
In-Reply-To: <359B3BF5.36D17CE0@ms11.hinet.net>; from Doug Lo on Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 03:51:18PM +0800
X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc
X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Thu, 02 Jul 1998 at 15:51 SAT, Doug Lo wrote:
> 
> I run ls -alt and suddently find this file dem&, then I try to delete it, but it
> seems can't be deleted.
> Would anyone tell me how to kill this file, thanks.

Quote the filename using either double or single quotes:

$ rm "dem&"

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message