From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 24 8:20:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (serial1-2-velvet-brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D9E37B401 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:20:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA62733 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:19:29 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:19:23 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing illegal filename In-Reply-To: <3A6F0CBD.17131.1CA4588@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 danny@i-p-d.nl wrote: > 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) I presume the "\" character is causing problems with your shell. If it's definitely a file, try: rm del\\\ (the trailing space is so that the shell doesn't continue the line after you hit enter) Worked for me with a test file I just did. You could also do "rm del*" if there are no other files starting with "del" in that directory... Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://info.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message