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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: corrupt filenames
Message-ID: <11574@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Nov 89 06:39:58 GMT
References: <101@mcdd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <101@mcdd1.UUCP> guest@mcdd1.UUCP (guest) writes:
>On a BSD system how can I remove a file that has a corrupt filename
>such as '- 1' ?

$ >foo
$ rm foo '- 1'

The general-purpose trick
$ rm -ri .
also works, but is more trouble since you have to answer the prompts.