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Getting rid of files with strange names.

Post by Scott A. La » Wed, 20 Sep 1995 04:00:00



Remove it by it's inode number (assuming you have no hard links
to the file):

# ls -i
1852   ?
123    fileA
# find . -inum 1852 -exec rm {} \;

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1. Getting rid of files with strange names.


:]::>> This is causing me no end of grief, as when I try to eliminate the file
:]::>> named -junk.txt, with the rm command, I always get an error message ...

What about just typing:

    rm ./-junk.txt

for some other problems, quote the filename
and for some non-printable embedded chars, you can work around them, usually,
with 'globbing'.

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