Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 13:42:13 -0700 From: Tony Jones <tony@rtd.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to delete strange filename Message-ID: <199603042042.NAA05664@seagull.rtd.com>
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960304091215.11752A-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu> you wrote:
: When I get some really strange filename, I write up a really short C
: program with one call to unlink("really_strange_filename"). It's worked
: in every case.
Sometimes with uprintable characters, it can be hard to determine the
exact name. I usually stumble upon this every few months on some
Unix system or another.
In these cases I usually do:
% /bin/rm -i ./* (assuming your name doesn't start woth a . of course)
It's advised to use /bin/rm, or \rm (in csh).
If rm is aliased to 'rm -f', -f -i == -f !!)
If you are sure of a prefix, you can specify that in the rexexp to cut down
the # of possibilities you have to iterate through.
If you are worried, you can first verify that -i works as expected:
% touch foo1 foo2
% rm -i foo[12]
This would have fixed the original posters problem too, but is clearly
the proverbial sledgehammer
tony
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