I have had luck with the following technique for deleting files that were incorrectly created with special characters in the filename (sometimes non-displayed characters):
Use find to develop a pattern unique to the file or files you want to delete, such as
find . -name '*RB*XA*' -print
Once you get the files in question listed, with no OTHER files listed, change the statement to
find . -name '*RB*XA*' -exec rm -f {} \;
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:15 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Deleting a file
try rm \#filename\#
every so often I run across a file that starts with * ie *filename
so i rm \*filename
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ted Gervais
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Deleting a file
Was wondering something here. Now and than I end up with a file that has
'#'
in front and back of it. ie: #filename#.
No doubt that is caused by using MC and while MC can delete these files how
does one do it from the command line? I have often tried to try a few
approaches to removing them 'rm #* or rm *# and can't seem to delete
them.
How is this done from the commmand line without resorting to using MC.??
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T.L.Gervais
Coldbrook, NS
Canada.
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