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From: jjp@necis.UUCP (Jeff Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: remove this file...
Message-ID: <1429@necis.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 91 20:14:14 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.233032.14860@cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: jjp@necis.UUCP (Jeff Phillips)
Organization: NEC Technologies, Inc., Boxborough, MA
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In article <1991Jun4.233032.14860@cs.odu.edu> you write:
>
>I recently had a file in my dirctory that was incidentally created by
>a program I ran.  `ls` reported it's name as "N???BZ? " and upon
>trying to remove it, it logged me out.  
>[...]
>My question is: How do you remove a file whose name contains the
>"logout" control sequence using standard commands available to sh,
>csh, or tcsh (useful on a system that does not have emacs)?  I do not
>[...]
	Have you tried "rm -rif ./*" ?  Answer 'n' when prompted for removing
	all the other files in the directory, and 'y' when prompted for the
	file you want to delete.
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