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From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>,
	David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>
Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ????
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:45:33 -0800
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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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