From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 9: 8:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1CB4324 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:08:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from morgaine (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA02425; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:08:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.1.20000203120507.00a24810@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 12:06:03 -0500 To: Mauricio Marquez , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: deleting a nasty directory entry In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000203105930.017d86e0@enlace.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Putting the directory name inside single quotes should do the trick for= you... Ex: =20 rmdir '???`???Nop???KUI??o?N?k' I just checked it out and it works fine on my system (3.3). Good luck, John >How do I go about deleting a nasty directory entry that goes something= like: > >???`???Nop???KUI??o?N?k > >If I try rm I get Unmatched ` . Big mistake if I try rm ???*.* or something >similar. > >It just bothers me that it=B4s there everytime I ls. > >Thanks, > >Mauricio > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message