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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!nadia.stgt.sub.org!delos!luva!migieger From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file? Organization: private 386bsd site References: <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> Message-ID: <CGuC30.EB@luva.stgt.sub.org> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 12:01:34 GMT Lines: 21 In article <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161) writes: > 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? Easy (it's in one of the faq's). rm ./-lg\ \|\ less tcsh (and bash?) do the quoting (\) automatically... Bye, Michael. -- ------------------------------+------------------------------ Michael Giegerich | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org ------------------------------+------------------------------