Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:17:59 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> To: danny@i-p-d.nl Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing illegal filename Message-ID: <20010124111759.A5790@databits.net> In-Reply-To: <3A6F0CBD.17131.1CA4588@localhost>; from danny@i-p-d.nl on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:11:25PM %2B0100 References: <3A6F0CBD.17131.1CA4588@localhost>
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electron [1410] % ls -l | grep del drwxr-xr-x 2 petef wheel 512 Jan 24 11:15 del\ electron [1411] % rmdir del\\ electron [1412] % ls -l | grep del electron [1413] % Another trick is when lusers make filenames starting with a "-" and rm wants to interpret it as a flag, is to "rm -- -filename". -pete. ++ 24/01/01 17:11 +0100 - danny@i-p-d.nl: >A customer of ours managed to create an illegal file/directory >named "del\" . It is unusable, but even more annoying, I can't >remove it. > >How can I manage to remove it? (I can't rm or mv the file) > > >Thanx for your help. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> Databits Network Services, Inc. <http://databits.net>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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