Brett Mueller wrote:
> Just to add a couple more ideas to the ones already mentioned (Hey, Linux
> is great for having many ways to accomplish tasks!):
>
> When using rm, try tab-completions for the offending filenames (possibly
> enclosing in quotes as someone else suggested) to get exact matches.
> Backslashes will aid in passing control-type characters.
>
> Another way around this (although rather clumsy), seems to be using ftp.
> The delete command (particularly if you have NcFTP, which supports
> tab-completion of filenames) in ftp seems to be capable of zapping files
> (or renaming them) with names that otherwise give shell programs fits!
> Thus you may ftp to localhost and delete your ugly file. Note that if you
> need root priveleges to do your deed, you will need to temporarily comment
> out `root` in your /etc/ftpusers (or equivalent) file, so that you are
> permitted to log in as root under ftp.
Hi Brett,
I think this is the award-winner :-)
73, Jan
>
>
> 73 de Brett, KB5CDX
>
> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> > I hit my mouse key 2 at a poor time and sent a lot of text to the
> > prompt. I tried rm and it got part of it but one long line I can't rm or
> > mv or kill or anything.
> >
> > When I use ls -i I see the offending line has an inode number
> > which I think a smart person can delete and solve my problem.
