Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:19:35 -0000 From: Daniel Bye <Daniel.Bye@uk.uu.net> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Pesky file Message-ID: <886CA0C095C5D411B95400508B6F7412866019@ukcamexch4.cam.uk.internal>
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Hi all, Here's a question for a Friday morning... Somehow, I have ended up with a file named -help in my home directory. How can I get rid of it? It is 0 bytes, and if I try to rm, mv, unlink it etc, the shell interprets the file name as an argument to the program and spews forth errors. Backslash escaping it doesn't work, and neither does quoting it. Is there any way to remove it by using the inode number?? It's not a huge problem, but it is annoying that I can't figure out how to do it! TIA for any insights/solutions. Dan Bye _______________________________ UUNET UK FM Server Support Engineer Internet House 332 Science Park Milton Road Cambridge CB4 0BZ Tel: 01223 250 122 E-mail: servers@support.uk.uu.net A WorldCom Company. ============================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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