Sridhar R wrote on Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:51:16AM -0800:
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| was wondering how to delete it. I tried $ rm \?\? (failed - Nosuch
| file or directory)
|
| Then I used vi to view the directory. That file is listed as ^[^[
| Deleting (D) that asked for Delete /home/sridhar/dcc//n/a/q? y
|
| Now the file is deleted. How to delete such file(s) in the shell? Why
| can't I escape those chars (?)
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it might happen because the file actually contained characters which
your term couldn't display properly. For example, try this:
$ touch ^V^G
$ ls
.
..
...
?
...
$ rm \?
<err msg>
$ rm ^V^G
<No error message!>
$
some weird program might have puked before it died.
-Suraj
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