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From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: undeleteable file
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:55:40 -0700
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In article
<9C00746FF63FEE1D.72EA4EFF4A14AA18.4741B474466FC265@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
Phil Crown <pcrown@ispnews.com> wrote:

>I have a file that can't be deleted.
>
>cr-s--xrwt  1 1870297  8293865  118, 0x7676004b Sep  3 06:07 amiga*
>
>Any ideas how to delete this?
>
>-- 
>Phil Crown  pcrown@ispnews.com  http://www.ispnews.com

try:

rm -i amiga*

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