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From: david@ecr1.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Bizzare Filenames
Message-ID: <143@ecr1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 05:44:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 05:44:24 1985
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Organization: Emerald City Research Inc., Toronto
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Keywords: ls, filenames, csh, sh


As one who, due to some untrained users, is faced with file names
of this sort quite often, I find that the best method of action is
as follows:

	1. use ls | od -ac | more to find out what its called.

	2. use rm -i * or rm -i .* to get rid of it.


This seems to work all the time. 

				David Haynes
				Emerald City Research Inc.
				..!utzoo!ecrhub!ecr1!david

	"Its common to mistake intelligence as the true
	opposite of supidity. In fact, the true opposite
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