From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 15:24:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns-exch05.jccc.net (ns-exch05.jccc.net [198.248.56.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA7E37B424 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 15:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ndunker@jccc.net) Received: by ns-exch05 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Sat, 12 May 2001 17:04:58 -0500 Message-ID: From: Noah Dunker To: 'User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How can I delete this file Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 17:04:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Midnight Commander can delete it... A cheap, nasty way to do it if that's the longest file name in the directory: rm ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????* The problem is that the ?'s in the actual filename aren't really a literal "?". hopefully that'll help. Noah Dunker Systems Analyst/Technician Johnson County Community College -----Original Message----- From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas [mailto:ipthomas_77@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 2:16 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message