home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!stuart
- From: stuart@austin.ibm.com (Stuart R. Yoder)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: cant delete file!
- Keywords: funny filenames!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.132017.3956@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 13:20:17 GMT
- References: <BtLrxr.77G@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Sender: news@awdprime.austin.ibm.com (USENET News)
- Reply-To: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com
- Organization: IBM Austin
- Lines: 29
- Originator: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com
-
-
- In article <BtLrxr.77G@acsu.buffalo.edu>, vidya-v@acsu.buffalo.edu (vidyaranya) writes:
- >
- > A file has been created in my directory accidentally,
- > possibly while reading disk on a SparcStation IPC. I am unable
- > to remove it. The file name appears as:
- >
- > -rw-r--r-- 1 vidya-v 0 Aug 24 12:02 A??LN???N???-@??-
- >
- > How do I delet it? I tried escaping the '?' and '@' as follows:
- >
- > daisy [~] 43: rm A\?\?LN\?\?\?N\?\?\?-\@\?\?-
- > rm: A??LN???N???-@??-: No such file or directory
- > daisy [~] 44:
- >
- > The file name is being correctly taken by the shell, but it cannot
- > find it!
- > Even unlink has no effect.
- >
- > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
- >
-
- How about using 'rm -i *'. It will ask whether to delete each
- file-- when you get to the one you want say 'yes'.
- --
- -Stuart
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- My opinions are mine and not those of my employer.
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-