This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple. Thanks Shao.
p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed to be single-backquotes? On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > have you tried > > rm ./?????[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > I have a file named : > > > > ?????[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > > > ... in my home directory. > > > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > > bash. > > > > Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list > > it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to > > do with it either! > > > > Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really > > bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... > > (: > > > > > > -- > > +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ > > | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | > > | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | > > | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | > > | http://www.natetech.com | "May the Source be with you." | > > +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ > > | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | > > | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | > > +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ > Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ > University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | > Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |___/ > _____________________________________________________________________________ > +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
