Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:09:12 +0100 From: Hexren <me@hexren.net> To: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash? Message-ID: <18815024894.20041119150912@hexren.net> In-Reply-To: <20041119133443.GA23820@akroteq.com> References: <20041119133443.GA23820@akroteq.com>
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AF> I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file AF> with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it. AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind 18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind 18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18 AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bind 17389 Nov 18 10:58 named.conf\ AF> -rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind 2602 May 25 17:28 named.root AF> I was using nano and have no clue how I did it. AF> If I rm named.conf\ it removes the named.conf. AF> So how do I get rid of named.conf\ ? AF> Andy --------------------------------------------- only shooting in the blue here but have you tried rm 'named.conf\' so as to instruct the sheel to ignore any special chars it sees. Or rm named.conf\\ (I seem to recall that you the backslash is the escape sequenze for the bash so escaping a backslash should lead to a literal backslash. *guessing* Hexren
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