Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:22:31 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name] Message-ID: <20040316122231.GA55349@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040315190746.799e4b0d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <40564E2C.7060706@earthlink.net> <44smg9oa4r.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040315190746.799e4b0d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:07:46PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote:
> That wouldn't explain why 'rm -i *' returned 'no match', though.
Just to eliminate the obvious: did these weird filenames begin with a
'.'? Shell globbing treats file names with a leading period
specially. You'ld have to do:
% ls -d .*
to get a listing of those files, and:
% rm -ri .[^.]*=20
to delete them. Note the extra effort taken to avoid matching the
special names '.' and '..' -- doing a recursive delete of '..' is a
real foot-shooting exercise.
Cheers,
Matthew
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