Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!science.utah.edu!gu.geymont From: GU.GEYMONT%SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU@wasatch.utah.edu (Rick Geymont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: When is a file name not a file name? Message-ID: <2229@wasatch.utah.edu> Date: 23 Jul 89 13:15:38 GMT References: <20314@adm.BRL.MIL> <1154@vsi.COM> Sender: news@wasatch.utah.edu Organization: Center for Scientific Computing, University of Utah Lines: 5 The easiest way I have found to remove files with special characters in the name is to do the following: do an 'ls -i' and get the inode number type 'find . -inum # -exec rm {} \;' where # is the inode number. Works every time...