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From: rhartman@thestepchild.sgi.com (Robert Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: File from MacHell
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.175705.320@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 17:57:05 GMT
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In article <DrPHILLIPS.91Jun25170624@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil> phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips) writes:
>I ftp'd to a Macintosh ... I got a list of
>files, including one with a trailing asterisk.
> ... I tried to delete it with rm, using
>every combination of quoting and escaping and globbing that I knew ...

In csh, say:

set noglob ; rm Hellfile* ; unset noglob

-r