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From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: How can I delete this file
In-Reply-To: <011901c0db27$2c7115b0$0100a8c0@ilya> from Ilya at "May 12, 2001 05:04:45 pm"
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 18:11:39 -0400 (EDT)
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	I tried it.  It just says no such file or directory.  I need someway to
convince it not to see the ? as a globbing symbol.  I've tried \? in front to
make it literal, but that makes it attempt to erase things in the root
directory.  Here are a few of my attempts...

rm -i `whole name of file here`
rm -i \?*	# I figured this would match the ? and then the rest

	Any more suggestions?

Ian

As told by, Ilya
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> rm "....................................."
> ?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
> To: "Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 3:15 PM
> Subject: How can I delete this file
> 
> 
> > I forgot to add the z flag when I extracted from a tarred file and in
> > return got this file...
> >
> >
> ?????c???-G???IR??????????I]????[?7jY?#??8?5??t???r???x?????LWL?]|?n?3b?????
> V??1
> > S????
> > How on earth can I delete this?
> >
> > Ian
> >
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