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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:41:39 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Unix Tools <unixtools@hotmail.com>
Cc: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu>,
	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file...
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On 2002-10-14 10:02, Unix Tools <unixtools@hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Brian McCann" <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> wrote:
> > I've got an interesting question for you all.  I've got a file who's
> > name is "   "...3 blank spaces.  It shows up when I do an ls -la, and I
> > can get it's inode # (it's in RedHat...a box I'm going to convert to
> > FreeBSD real soon)...does anyone know how to remove a file based off of
> > an inode #?
>
> cd to the directory where the file exists
> write a perl script
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> unlink "   ";
> exit(0);

Or use quoting properly on the command line:

	# rm "   "

That seems a bit faster, and requires no Perl knowledge.

Giorgos.

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