Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:54:47 +0200 From: Andres Aitsen <Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ???? Message-ID: <200302122254.47194.Andres.Aitsen@mail.ee> In-Reply-To: <200302121145.33271.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com> <20030212192143.GA7742@moo.holy.cow> <200302121145.33271.kstewart@owt.com>
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=DChel kenal p=E4eval (kolmap=E4ev, 12. veebruar 2003 21:45) kirjutas Ken= t 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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