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From: pfales@ttrde.UUCP (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Problem removing a file
Summary: Cute trick
Message-ID: <836@ttrde.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 02:27:20 GMT
References: <695@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article <695@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (The Evil Mel Fujitsu) writes:
> Ok, I've really done it now.  I've created, in my home directory,
> a file by the name of:
> -ef

It was almost a religious experience when I found a general solution to
this kind of problem:

1) ls -i  (to get the inode number of  the file.  Call it N)
2) find . -inum N -print -exec rm {} \;

It works on every problem I have had:  names with spaces, names with
my KILL or INTR characters, names starting with '-', etc.  

Disclaimer:  Your mileage may vary.

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