From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 24 8:52:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com (msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com [65.25.230.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3267737B69C for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from z3rk@localhost) by msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0OGqAk16855; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:52:10 -0600 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:52:10 -0600 From: Shawn Leas To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, danny@i-p-d.nl Subject: Re: removing illegal filename Message-ID: <20010124105210.C15479@msp-65-25-230-128.mn.rr.com> References: <3A6F0CBD.17131.1CA4588@localhost> <20010124161643.I47403@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010124161643.I47403@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:16:44PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Or rm -i del* if the name is weirder than what can be represented with a keyboard. Ever get ^J in your filename? You could even put ANSI color in your filename if you're k3wl... On 01/24, simond@irrelevant.org rearranged the electrons to read: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:11:25PM +0100, 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) > > Try rm del\\ > > -- > Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org > "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message