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- From: hung@octel.com (Hung Le)
- Subject: Re: cant delete file!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.004926.19205@octel.com>
- Keywords: funny filenames!
- Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
- References: <BtLrxr.77G@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:49:26 GMT
- Lines: 20
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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:
- >
- >daisy [~] 43: rm A\?\?LN\?\?\?N\?\?\?-\@\?\?-
-
- You could use the command:
-
- /bin/rm -i A*
-
- then answer 'y' for the appropriate file that you want to delete.
- Good luck.
-
- Cheers,
-