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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:15:40 +0100
From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
To: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ????
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:12:32 -0500
David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> wrote:

Howdy,

> Yes, the file is a bunch of question marks.
> 
> I can't seem to clean it away.
> 
> rm ????????
> rm '????????'
> rm "????????"

You need to escape the ?, so it doesn't get expanded by the shell.

rm \?\?\?\?\?\? should work.

You can also use midnight commander (misc/mc) to delete it.

Cheers,
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        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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        Of course it runs NetBSD!

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