On May 14, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Ryan Flannery wrote:
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>
I tried your example. The oddly named entry is a directory.
"rm -i *" does not work, but "rm -ri *" does let me remove it.
