Subject: Re: About erasing ??"?
From: Jason P. Stanford (jps3@lehigh.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 11 1999 - 15:29:31 MDT
Or, you could Midnight Commander....
% mc
Then use the up/down arrow to highlight and F8 (or ESC-8) to call the
delete dialogue box...
Benjamin Karas wrote:
>
> A safe method of erasing files with strange names (including dash), is to
> do the following:
>
> rm -- '??"?'
>
> the -- tells rm that the file is not an argument.
> the quotes quote most everything (use \' for a single quote, \\ for a
> backslash)
>
> This is a nice thing to know if you accidentally save a file named '-' or
> if someone creates a file named '-rf /*'.
>
> -Ben Karas
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