Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:00:55 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> To: Andres Aitsen <Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ???? Message-ID: <200302122300.55135.will@unfoldings.net> In-Reply-To: <200302122254.47194.Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee> References: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com> <200302121145.33271.kstewart@owt.com> <200302122254.47194.Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee>
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On Wednesday 12 February 2003 22:54, Andres Aitsen wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval (kolmapäev, 12. veebruar 2003 21:45) kirjutas Kent
Stewart:
> > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:21 am, parv wrote:
> > > > I have a file called ???????????????
> > > > I can't seem to clean it away.
> > > >
> > > > rm ????????
> > > > rm '????????'
> > > > rm "????????"
> > > >
> > > > all do not work.
> >
> > That is a lot of work when you could have just
> >
> > rm -- ???????????????
> >
> > The "--" tells rm that what follows is a file name.
>
> Well, simple test showed, what does the job.
>
> %touch \?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
> %ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 andres wheel 0 Feb 12 22:50 ???????????????
> %rm \?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
> %ls -l
> %
>
> Andres
>
> Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee
>
Or, if you are using csh:
%touch '?????'
%ls -lh '?????'
-rw-r--r-- 1 will will 0B Feb 12 22:58 ?????
%rm '?????'
%ls -lh '?????'
ls: ?????: No such file or directory
%
Note, single quotes ('), not double quotes (").
The reason for this is that shells will still inspect variables and wild
cards inside double quotes. Inside single quotes, you could even put a
double quote without having problems.
Will
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