From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 19:43:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1490E37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A652443E4A for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C3528C08; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:43:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:43:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: mingo lu Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: weird files In-Reply-To: <20020920023650.65864.qmail@web14805.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020919224152.T27009-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, mingo lu wrote: > Hi: i have two weird files under my home directory; one is > file named "-bash.gmon" and another one is "xy ds". > how could i remove them? rm just won't work ... > tia What error does rm give you? Have you tried `rm -i \-bash\.gmon` or `rm -i xy\ ds`? If your shell is tcsh you can just type part of the filename then press TAB and if you are familiar with emacs (the editor) it has a dired (directory editor) mode where you can arrow up and down and select files with one key press in order to delete them. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message