Ryan Flannery wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Jordi Beltran Creix > <[email protected]> wrote: > > rm `ls | grep E` would delete that file leaving others alone. > > > > Regards, > > > > Just for the list... > I had tried that incantation, and others involving grep, and > they all failed. > > Output (I just reproduced the file) from your example is: > > tarski> wget ftp://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/ports.tar.gz > ...(wget output)... > tarski> tar xf ports.tar.gz > ...(tar output, lots-o-errors, obviously)... > > now the file exists with the mucked-up name (see previous post for how > ls(1) displays it) > and here's what happens when I use the "rm `ls | grep E`" you > suggested (and I tried earlier... again with many variations) > > tarski> rm `ls | grep E` > ~,u?}w=R1T)U7r5\4gm(_EW]W-sn^[[?1;2c: No such file or directory > Ec?J9K%Mx/!...@ss,W7g?5 > 0,z: No such file or directory M}OWDt?Yw?rB~[*6t?0h|7<aBz_ > tarski> >
You might try something like mkdir /usr-new mv /usr/[a-z0-9A-Z]* /usr-new ls -l /usr AFTER EVERYTHING mentionaable has been moved rm -rf /usr mv /usr-new /usr
