On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:03:08 +0100 magnet got hold of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
> Hi, managed to download some rogue files by mistake using p2p and now I cannot > > delete them. No matter what I do they appear listed as present in konqueror > or konsole window. > > Files all start with ":123 filename.gif". > > I have tried rm and shred but the shell complains it cannot lstat the file and > > "No such file or directory" > ls -a returns a list of these 3 files in the directory. Wild guess, the ':' is causing the problem. Can you 'mv', ie. rename or move them? -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Gandhi
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