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From: Andres Aitsen <Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee>
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Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ????
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:54:47 +0200
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=DChel kenal p=E4eval (kolmap=E4ev, 12. veebruar 2003 21:45) kirjutas Ken=
t Stewart:
> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:21 am, parv wrote:
> > > I have a file called ???????????????
> > > I can't seem to clean it away.
> > >
> > > rm ????????
> > > rm '????????'
> > > rm "????????"
> > >
> > > all do not work.
>
> That is a lot of work when you could have just
>
> rm -- ???????????????
>
> The "--" tells rm that what follows is a file name.
>

Well, simple test showed, what does the job.

%touch \?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
%ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 andres  wheel  0 Feb 12 22:50 ???????????????
%rm \?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
%ls -l
%

Andres

Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee


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