Occasionally on Unix one gets a file full of control characters and other detritus and when that happens "rm" tends to fail because it can't deal with the resulting file name. In some instances % rm -i foo* will work, but only if the file in question has some visible tag (like "foo") AND the expension of "foo*" doesn't confuse rm and/or the shell. It would be very convenient if we could remove these instead via this method: % ls tali | head -1 160905 -rw-r--r-- 1 safrun saf 4877438 Dec 20 09:46 toxic_name_here % rm --inode 160905 The version of "rm" in RH 6.2 (for instance) doesn't allow this. Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
