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From: ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: corrupt filenames
Message-ID: <8493@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:25:21 GMT
References: <101@mcdd1.UUCP> <11574@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: ag@cbmvax.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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I try to resist these temptations to post messages on how to do things
in just a different way, but I feel Doug's example leaved a little to
be desired.

In article <11574@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <101@mcdd1.UUCP> guest@mcdd1.UUCP (guest) writes:
>>[How do I remove the file '- 1']
>
>$ >foo
>$ rm foo '- 1'
>
>The general-purpose trick
>$ rm -ri .
>also works, but is more trouble since you have to answer the prompts.

The general trick is really:

$ rm './FILENAME'

(quote the filename and preceed it with './'), so

$ rm ./'- 1'

Pax, Keith
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  ag@cbmvax.commodore.com     Keith M. Gabryelski      ...!uunet!cbmvax!ag