At the risk of conflagration, emacs does a fine job of deleting bizarre files. Just edit the directory.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html I can see the flames already. Curt On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:50 PM, CindyYoho <[email protected]> wrote: > does your rm prompt you for confirmation? You could try > > rm *b and see if it shows up in the list. > > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Howard White" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Tuesday, December 11, 2012 1:32:13 PM > *Subject: *[nlug] Don't know how this happened > > > Okay guys, here's a hot one. > > By whatever circumstance, I now have a file named "-b" in a directory. > I've tried to backslash to move it: > mv \-b whatisthis > > I've tried double quotes > mv "-b" whatisthis > > I've tried single quotes > mv '-b' whatisthis > > I've tried combinations of \ and quotes. > > NOW WHAT??? > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
