On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:26, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> i once administered a Solaris system where someone accidentally managed,
> over a serial terminal, to "touch" a new file whos name was a single
> backspace character (ASCII 0x08). The only way we managed to delete it was
> deleting its parent directory.

Using Zsh on Linux, I can delete the file by 'rm ^H'.
('^H' is typed as ctrl-v ctrl-h.)
Also, 'rm ?' will do (after getting other single-letter-named files out).


-- 
MIURA Masahiro
echocham...@gmail.com
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