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From: chris@utgard.UUCP (Chris Anderson)
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!
Message-ID: <368@utgard.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 20:58:05 GMT
References: <1689@wasatch.utah.edu>
Reply-To: chris@utgard.UUCP (Chris Anderson)
Organization: QMA Inc., Rancho Cordova, CA
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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.

Another way is to do "rm -i *" and then answer y/n for each file
that you want to keep or not keep.

The "find" method is the cleanest, however :-).



Chris
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