Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if you type ? and then tab after the command you'd like to operate on that file, bash will complete the name (unless you have other files beginning with ? too). > 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! Are you sure it's a file at all? It looks more like a misconfigured ls. Does the file show up in your $HOME only or in every directory? Regards, -- Eberhard Burr check http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include <stddisc.h> -- electric cookie follows BARRY ... That was the most HEART-WARMING rendition of "I DID IT MY WAY" I've ever heard!!