From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 12:51:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B77714D51 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:51:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 18196 invoked from network); 7 Oct 1999 19:50:23 -0000 Received: from userbl49.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.156) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 1999 19:50:23 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA00742; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:38:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:38:33 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: Jack Winslade , Matthew Joseff , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wierd Directory listing Message-ID: <19991007203833.D316@marder-1> References: <199910071739.MAA16970@iwww.sitel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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* > > rm *7* > Another one is to use ``rm -i *'', but be careful about answering ``y'' :) It worked for me. Curiously, ``rm -i'' displayed the offending chars differently to ls(1) which, as in the example, just uses the wildcard ``?'' Hmm. > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message