Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:23:50 -0500 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: rene@xs4all.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm a file named "-l"? ;-) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011217162250.030b2cc8@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <rl7krl3731.krl@localhost.localdomain> References: <20011217111215.I21241@xs4all.nl> <20011217111215.I21241@xs4all.nl>
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At 12:49 12.17.2001 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen 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 A quicker way would be to use unlink(1) - Jim Philosophy is for those who have nothing better to do than wonder why philosophy is for those who have nothing better to do than... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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