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From: gupta@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Rohit Gupta)
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Subject: Re: help removing a file
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Date: 5 Sep 90 18:43:23 GMT
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harmon@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Jim Harmon) writes:

>says it's zhangNevai.tex. I've tried putting a back slash in front of the ?
>and quoting the whole name. I even tried doing `rm -i *` and it matches
>zhangNevai.tex but says there's No such file or directory.

Try using its inode to remove it. First do an 'ls -i' to determine its inode
number. Lets say that this returns 33007. Next enter the following:

	 find . -inum 33007 -exec rm {} \;

That should remove it.

Rohit

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