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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!skates.gsfc.nasa.gov!hq.hq.af.mil!scratchy.hq.af.mil!lpeters From: lpeters@scratchy.hq.af.mil (Leslie D. Peters) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file? Date: 22 Nov 1993 13:32:57 GMT Organization: Defense Information Service Agency Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2cqf29$f1f@hq.hq.af.mil> References: <2ch6t2$ih5@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> <2cmstq$78e@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> Reply-To: lpeters@scratchy.hq.af.mil NNTP-Posting-Host: scratchy.hq.af.mil In article <2cmstq$78e@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au>, tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (Terry Dwyer 619 491 5161) writes: |> 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 |> |> -- |> _-_|\ 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 ) Here's another for your list, fron the annuls of "UNIX Power Tools": ls -i; find . -inum <###> -exec rm {} \; Works like a champ -- |"...I have pores: humans have pores. I have fingerprints: humans have | |fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick | |me, do I not........leak?" | | - Data to Capt Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Naked Now" | | Les Peters (lpeters@scratchy.hq.af.mil) Proud to run NetBSD 0.9! |