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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!milo.mcs.anl.gov!xray!winans From: winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans) Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file? Message-ID: <CGrCK8.JBC@mcs.anl.gov> Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago Illinois References: <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 21:19:19 GMT Lines: 19 In article <2ch6t2$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? How about "rm -i *" and say 'n' to everything except the one you want to get rid of? Either that or use wildcards. If you are root in a nasty spot, like /etc or /bin, I HIGHLY recommend the use of the -i flag! --John -- ! John Winans Advanced Photon Source (Controls) ! ! winans@mcs.anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois ! ! ! !"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." - Tom Waits !