Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:54:09 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ???? Message-ID: <20030212165409.GC60013@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com>
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:12:32AM -0500, David Banning wrote:
> I have a file called ???????????????
>
> Yes, the file is a bunch of question marks.
>
> I can't seem to clean it away.
>
> rm ????????
> rm '????????'
> rm "????????"
>
> all do not work.
rm -i -- ?*
The "--" token tells rm that anything coming after it is to be treated as
an argument, not another option.
If your shell supports it, you may be able to type "rm -i ?<TAB>", and
let the shell work it out for you.
You can also try ls -i to get the inode number of the file, then use
find to kill it:
$ ls -i
174370 ???????
$ find . -inum 174370 -exec rm {} \;
Use -ok instead of -exec if you are paranoid, as it will ask you to
confirm before doing anything.
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