Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:17:07 -0500 From: "Lapinski, Michael (CRD)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> To: "'danny@i-p-d.nl'" <danny@i-p-d.nl>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: removing illegal filename Message-ID: <7F537688E0D6D0119A0B00805FFEBE9405066E47@exc03crdge.crd.ge.com>
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use the escape character \ in front of it =) # touch del\\ # ll | grep del -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 24 16:16 del\ # rm del\\ # ll | grep del # -------Original Message----- --From: danny@i-p-d.nl [mailto:danny@i-p-d.nl] --Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:11 AM --To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG --Subject: removing illegal filename -- -- --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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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