From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 12:54:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3502537B416 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:54:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12650 invoked by uid 0); 17 Dec 2001 20:54:38 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO oscar.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 17 Dec 2001 20:54:38 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011217145103.00ab4bf8@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:52:23 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: rm a file named "-l"? ;-) In-Reply-To: References: <20011217111215.I21241@xs4all.nl> <20011217111215.I21241@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's a page that deals with funky filenames: UNIX: How To Deal With Filenames Containing Unprintable/Special Characters Oscar At 12:49 PM 12/17/2001 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen, you wrote: >One "last resort" for problem filenames of any kind is to do > > \rm -i * .* > >in it's directory, and then be sure to answer "n" for everything >but the one you want to delete. (You usually don't need the ".*".) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message