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From: scott <scott@chronis.pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Wierd Directory listing
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one can also delete stuff like this with dired mode in emacs.

just run 'emacs .' in the offending directory.

scott

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:14:42AM -0700, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote:
> On  7-Oct-99 at 10:42, Jack Winslade (jsw@iwww.sitel.net) wrote:
> > The trick I use to remove unremovable files is to specify a pattern that
> > matches only the bad one.  I would first try:
> > 
> > rm *7*
> 
> Just a note for the paranoid: When I need to do something like
> this, I use the sequence:
> 
> 	ls *7*
> 	<Make sure it only listed the file(s) I want deleted>
> 	rm *7*
> 
> And, while we are on the topic of deleting inconviently named
> files; the easiest way to delete a file that starts with a dash
> is to put './' in front.  E.g.,
> 
> 	rm ./-r	
> 
> 
> -Pat
> 
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