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- From: chris@ctmnix.UUCP (Chris Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: cant delete file!
- Keywords: funny filenames!
- Message-ID: <39@ctmnix.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 03:31:15 GMT
- References: <BtLrxr.77G@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Reply-To: chris@ctmnix.UUCP (Chris Matthews)
- Organization: Underground Nixbox Creations
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- 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:
- >
-
- First:
- can you pipe anything into it? I'm thinking that it the system
- will see the file as not being empty, maybe, you'll have better
- luck at rm'n it.
-
- Second:
- have you used any wild cards such as: rm A*
-
- chris
- Genisys Corp.
- Thu Aug 27 23:31:08 EDT 1992
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