Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:19:23 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing illegal filename Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101250316140.61439-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3A6F0CBD.17131.1CA4588@localhost>
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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\\\<space> (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
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