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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: help removing a file
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.115659.7295@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 11 Sep 90 11:56:59 GMT
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Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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In article <1990Sep5.180847.21767@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> harmon@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Jim Harmon) writes:
>Could someone someone help me with removing a file. On our system we have a
>file that appears as zhang?evai.tex when doing a `ls` but a tab completion
>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.

When confronted with this situation on my system I try

	mv *zh*tex* foo
	rm foo

The actual regex depends on the problem.  The point is that mv seems
to be able to work on files where rm won't, so you mv it to a name
rm can use.

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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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