On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > I have a file named : > > ?????[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ > > ... in my home directory. > > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in > bash. > > Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list > it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to > do with it either! >
Hi, rm 'your_file_name' mc doesn't list this file because it last char is ~ and mc interprets this files as backup. You can set in mc Options->Configuration...->show Backup files to see files *~ and Options->Configuration...->show Hidden files to see files .* Mirek