On 11/26/2011 5:30 AM, Brandon High wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com wrote:
OK, I'm out of escapes. or other tricks... other than using emacs but
I haven't installed emacs as yet.
I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
Did you try rm -- filename ?
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On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~. Experimenting
with something I've now forgotten I guess.
Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c,
You could list by inode, then use find with rm.
# ls -i
7223 -O
# find . -inum 7223 -exec rm {} \;
David
On 11/23/11 2:00 PM, Jason King (Gmail) jason.brian.k...@gmail.com
wrote:
Did you try rm -- filename ?
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On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Harry Putnam
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Smith, David W. smith...@llnl.gov wrote:
You could list by inode, then use find with rm.
# ls -i
7223 -O
# find . -inum 7223 -exec rm {} \;
This is the one solution I'd recommend against, since it would remove
hardlinks that you might care about.
Also,
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
OK, I'm out of escapes. or other tricks... other than using emacs but
I haven't installed emacs as yet.
I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I do get emacs
installed, but by now I just want to know how
[...]
Harry wrote:
rm \-c
rm: illegal option -- c
usage: rm [-fiRr] file ...
Ditto for:
[\-]c
'-c'
*c
'-'c
\075c
OK, I'm out of escapes. or other tricks... other than using emacs but
I haven't installed emacs as yet.
I can just ignore them of course, until such time as I
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 14:43, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~. Experimenting
with something I've now forgotten I guess.
Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with names -O, -c, -k.
I've tried as many styles of escaping as I
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| On 2011-11-23 13:43:10, Harry Putnam wrote:
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| Somehow I touched some rather peculiar file names in ~. Experimenting
| with something I've now forgotten I guess.
|
| Anyway I now have 3 zero length files with
