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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: need help for SCO Xenix Sys V 286. ver 2.1.3
Keywords: removal of odd files, files have non-ascii chars in name!
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Date: 29 Apr 89 16:21:41 GMT
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In article <1689@wasatch.utah.edu> ch-tkr@wasatch.utah.edu (Timothy K Reynolds) writes:

>My Problem:  we are removing some old users from the system.  But we can't
>clean their directories due to some odd files which still exist.  The files
>apparently have non-ascii characters in them (as determined by "ls > tmp"
>and trying to edit tmp in vi.
>
>Anybody out there know how to get around this problem?  I would really
>appreciate your help with this matter.

One way is to pipe the output of find into a simple program that unlinks
files as in

find . -type f -print | zapcrap

where the program zapcrap is

#include	<stdio.h>
char	ls[BUFSIZ];
main()
{
	while(gets(ls))	unlink(ls);
}


Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
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