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Subject: RE: deleting directories with ??? in name
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> 
> I've tried lynx, but it did not display the files.
> I tried emacs, but I was only able to rename two of the 
> directories to other names I could delete; the other two gave 
> me an error of illegal character. I tried 'rm -i -- ?*' but 
> it didn't find the files. I tried 'find . -inum 146 -delete' 
> but while it gave no error message, the files/directories remain.
> 
> Help!  How do I delete these odd directories?
> Please CC me in your response as I'm not currently
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> 

#mkdir dir?me
#rmdir dir\?me