Mark T. Valites wrote: > Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with > funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a > 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are > not literal question marks, but just represent an unprintable character. > > Without using shell meta characters (*), C, perl, loops, find or anything > other than just the rm command, I haven't been able to figure out how to > remove this file. There has to be a way to get rid of it with rm, but I > have had no such luck with it so far by quoting, escaping, using "--", > "./" or any other magic I can think of.
with a little help from man ls && man bash: ls --escape will print the escape sequences for funky characters; rm $'<pasted from ls --escape output>' will then work. hope this helps! pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
