IIRC, the line terminator for text files on Apple computers used to be a carriage return.
On unix, it has always been a line feed. I wonder what it is, now that the OS is based on unix. I believe that "\r" is an escape sequence to represent a carriage return. That might give a clue as to why this happened? Can't you see this file in the Finder and just drag it to the trash bin? Since when are Apple computers so command-line intensive? On 1/27/10, tjpa <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:03 AM, John Emmerling wrote: >> rm -i "Icon\\r" >> rm -i 'Icon\\r' >> rm -i "Icon\r" >> rm -i 'Icon\r' > > Alas no. > > Even the dread rm * fails to conquer. > > The backslash is an escape character. The idiots actually have a > control character in the filename. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
