On Sun, 29 Oct 2023, Reid wrote:

Any luck with this?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/746048/cant-delete-a-file-with-a-in-the-file-name

Reid,

Nope.

However, using `ls -b' I learned that the `?' is octal \021. The ls man page
did't suggest another option to view non-printable characters and my
trial-and-error efforts to replace that parenthesis with `*' failed. So did
trying to use a wildcard after initial chars in the filename.

Also if it's the only file in the directory (maybe I misunderstood), what
happens when you try to remove the whole directory (`rm -rf
<directory_path>`)?

Initially I used `rm -rf salmo-root' and everything but that one file was
removed.

Thanks,

Rich


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