Handle this with great care!! If you can remove it in the gui, do so.
That would be safest. If you cannot, then look up the man page on rm, and make sure that the -i flag works. -i stands for inquire, and should ask you for each file that it wants to remove whether to remove it or not. When you are absolutely certain that you trust the -i flag, and have tested it somewhere, then go to the directory where the offending file is, and type: (CAUTION) /bin/rm -i * Then it will ask you for each file, and you type n for all of them except the one with the mangled name. (I would also wait an hour first, in case somebody has a less scary alternative that they post.) (Note: i may sound ridiculous talking about caution here, but i remember years ago deleting a huge amount of work because i was removing without checking very well.) dan On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Dennis Wicks <w...@mgssub.com> wrote: > Greetings; > > I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; > > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf > > I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I have > thought of to get rid of it or write over it. > > Any ideas how I can get this thing out of my life?? > > Many TIA!! > Dennis > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fa06fab.9070...@mgssub.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caophizlqq5cwwujsk9uri9hxxd_pwwzuzo2os5tb7jviqy6...@mail.gmail.com
