Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:21:43 -0500 From: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> To: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ???? Message-ID: <20030212192143.GA7742@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com>
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wrote David Banning thusly...
>
> I have a file called ???????????????
...
>
> I can't seem to clean it away.
>
> rm ????????
> rm '????????'
> rm "????????"
>
> all do not work.
try something like...
find . -inum $( /bin/ls -i | fgrep '?' | awk '{print $1}' ) -print0 \
| xargs -0 rm -f
- parv
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