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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do you rm a strange file?
Date: 7 Dec 93 01:38:23
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In-reply-to: peter@NeoSoft.com's message of Sat, 27 Nov 1993 14:46:40 GMT
In article <CH5nps.KIL@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
The only way guaranteed to work on all UNIX style systems:
rm "./-lg | less"
Not true....
rm -ir `pwd` (answer 'y' to the ones you don't want)
>FileNotThere; rm FileNotThere funny-files... (each file in '')
Also, on a large (but decreasing) number of OSs, mv has no flags. You
can rename the file to a 'more removable' name.
Brian.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>