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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!ugle.unit.no!ugle.unit.no!jarle From: jarle@drue.idt.unit.no (Jarle Greipsland) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file? Date: 19 Nov 93 10:39:28 Organization: Free Hardware Foundation, UnLtd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <JARLE.93Nov19103928@drue.idt.unit.no> References: <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: drue.idt.unit.no In-reply-to: tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au's message of 19 Nov 1993 09:18:12 +0800 In article <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au>, tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161) writes: td> seem to have created a file that I can't delete in the middle of td> a large directory structure: td> -rw-r--r-- 1 tdwyer 58 Nov 19 08:54 -lg | less td> Any clues how to rm it? Try rm ./-lg\ \|\ less or something similar. You might want to use the "-i" option with rm to be on the safe side (chicken... :-). -jarle ---- And the UNIX user said, rm -r * And all was without form, and void.