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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst From: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file? Date: 19 Nov 1993 11:00:50 GMT Organization: Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ci912$o5p@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> Reply-To: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de 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? rm -f './-lg | less' If you want to do it carefully then mkdir gibsdemelch #or another name for a temporary directory mv './-lg | less' gibsdemelch ls -lag gibsdemelch #let's have a look rm -rf gibsdemelch #if the previous ls showed what you've expected You can also use wildcards mv ./*less* hauwegdenmist The trick is the ./ at the beginning. > >-- > _-_|\ Terry Dwyer E-Mail: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au > / \ System Administrator Phone: +61 9 491 5161 Fax: +61 9 221 2631 > *_.^\_/ Telecom Australia Telstra Corporation MIME capable mailer > v Perth WA ( I do not speak for Telstra or Telecom ) > Henry -- juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.12] (internet) juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.221.30] saph2::juengst [13.259] (decnet) Any opinions in this mail are my own.