Ryan Flannery wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Tony Abernethy > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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=R1 T)U7r 5\4gm(_EW]W-sn^[[?1;2c: No such file or directory > >> Ec?J9 K%Mx/!...@s S,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 > > I thought about this... moving everything out of /usr so I could just > delete the mischievous file's parent directory, which would certainly > have worked. > > The /usr slice is quite hefty, and the time to move everything to a > new partition would have been a while... I kept trying to find another > way around this (which probably took way longer than it would have to > just copy everything out of /usr to a new partition :) > Out of curiosits, what does ls -il /usr/*w=R1* ls -il /usr/[^a-zA-Z0-9]* produce?
You might get it with a pattern that gets nothing of value. rm -f /usr/[^a-zA-Z0-9]*
