Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!targon!andre
From: andre@targon.UUCP (andre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ghost file, use zoo aM
Message-ID: <458@targon.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 13:29:21 GMT
References: <17625@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: andre@targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen)
Organization: Nixdorf Computer BV., OSP, P.O. Box 29,Vianen, The Netherlands
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In UNIX-WIZARDS Digest  V6#021, Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@dasys1.uucp>
writes:
>It may be so screwed up that the "*" metacharacter won't expand into such
>a bad name (and if the name starts with ".", then the "*" also won't
>help).

The * metacharacter does expand right, but then the shell strips off the
8th bit. One solution I once found is to use zoo (the archiver) to move
the file into an archive, zoo deletes it if all files are added. Then
you can remove the archive. So if you have zoo running, use:
zoo aM name <first char of name>*
rm name.zoo

-- 
~----~ |m    AAA         DDDD  It's not the kill, but the thrill of the chase.
~|d1|~@--   AA AAvv   vvDD  DD        Segment registers are for worms.
~----~  &  AAAAAAAvv vvDD  DD
~~~~~~ -- AAA   AAAvvvDDDDDD        Andre van Dalen, uunet!mcvax!targon!andre