On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:21 am, parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote David Banning thusly... > > > I have a file called ??????????????? > > ... > > > I can't seem to clean it away. > > > > rm ???????? > > rm '????????' > > rm "????????" > > > > all do not work. > > try something like... > > find . -inum $( /bin/ls -i | fgrep '?' | awk '{print $1}' ) -print0 > \ > > | xargs -0 rm -f >
That is a lot of work when you could have just rm -- ??????????????? The "--" tells rm that what follows is a file name. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
