Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:45:33 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>, David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ???? Message-ID: <200302121145.33271.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030212192143.GA7742@moo.holy.cow> References: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com> <20030212192143.GA7742@moo.holy.cow>
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On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:21 am, parv wrote:
> in message <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com>,
> 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
>
That is a lot of work when you could have just
rm -- ???????????????
The "--" tells rm that what follows is a file name.
Kent
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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