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Date:      Thu, 03 Feb 2000 13:48:05 -0500
From:      "James A. Mutter" <jmutter@ds.net>
To:        Mauricio Marquez <mmarquez@enlace.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: deleting a nasty directory entry
Message-ID:  <3899CD65.E8F62359@ds.net>
References:  <3.0.32.20000203123116.016b1d40@enlace.net>

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Mauricio Marquez wrote:
> 
> Well, thanks to all that have responded but i still have the file or
> directory (i have no idea which it is).
> 
> I tried with both " and ´. rm "stuff" returns Unmatched `. rm ´stuff´
> returns No such file or directory.
> 
> I went with rm -i * but it says some weird characters (different that what
> appears in the ls display) is a directory. Now there´s no way I can match
> those weird characters to try to do an RMDIR ´weird chars´ and there´s no
> RMDIR -i option.
> 
> Any other ideas?

The really easy way would be to get a copy of midnight commander and
delete it with that.  Midnight commander is available in the ports
collection.


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