25 May
2002
25 May
'02
3:51 p.m.
If you want you can also open up midnight commander, just delete it that way. I had the same problem with a file named '-s' -Joe Charles R. Anderson wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:00:22AM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: maitre> combination. When i try to delete the file using 'rm', or cat it, i can't seem to maitre> pass the correct filename to rm (i do try to escape characters, and use 'TAB' but no luck). Is there a way to pass an inode number to rm or cat?
Go to the directory that contains these strange filenames and do:
rm -i *
Then type y when you get to the strange file(s) you want to delete.