From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!clark.wbst@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: rm ABC*
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.828
Posted: Wed Mar 23 06:47:00 1983
Received: Thu Apr  7 04:23:27 1983

I don't like the idea... it seems 'anti-UNIX'. 

I always wrote a one line C program to unlink it.

If a global solution is needed, how about a program sort of like dsw...
You say "rmi inode-number", and it looks in the current directory for
inode-number, gets the string, and deletes it.  The user gets the inode
number from an ls -i.  If you call it with no argument, it could look
through the directory for non-typeable file names and ask the user if
that one was it, printing it in hex and as a string.  This does not
kludge up UNIX, and solves the problem.

					--Ray