On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Jordi Beltran Creix <[email protected]> wrote: > rm `ls | grep E` would delete that file leaving others alone. > > Regards, >
Just for the list... I had tried that incantation, and others involving grep, and they all failed. Output (I just reproduced the file) from your example is: tarski> wget ftp://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/ports.tar.gz ...(wget output)... tarski> tar xf ports.tar.gz ...(tar output, lots-o-errors, obviously)... now the file exists with the mucked-up name (see previous post for how ls(1) displays it) and here's what happens when I use the "rm `ls | grep E`" you suggested (and I tried earlier... again with many variations) tarski> rm `ls | grep E` ~,u?}w=R1T)U7r5\4gm(_EW]W-sn^[[?1;2c: No such file or directory Ec?J9K%Mx/!...@ss,W7g?5 0,z: No such file or directory M}OWDt?Yw?rB~[*6t?0h|7<aBz_ tarski>
