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From: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file?
Date: 21 Nov 1993 13:04:44 +0800
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Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161 (tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au) wrote:
: seem to have created a file that I can't delete in the middle of
: a large directory structure:
: -rw-r--r-- 1 tdwyer 58 Nov 19 08:54 -lg | less
: Any clues how to rm it?
(Following up to my own article - sorry)
Thanks to all the people who replied to my message, so far about 11 and 2
postings. Because there seem to be so many different ways you can do this,
a short summary:
(1) rm - "-lg | less" pass
(2) rm ?lg???less fail
(3) rm -- "-lg | less" Better than (1)
(4) rm this_sucks "-lg | less" pass
(5) Get a tcsh or bash, then type: rm -<TAB> fail
(5) mkdir tmp; mv [~-]* tmp/; rm *; mv tmp/* .; rmdir tmp ????
(6) rm -i * fail
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