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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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