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From: ccea3@rivm.UUCP (Adri Verhoef)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Keywords: od echo rm
Message-ID: <1342@rivm05.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 09:46:08 GMT
References: <105096@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: ccea3@rivm05.UUCP (Adri Verhoef)
Organization: RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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>1. I use "ls -i" to obtain the i-number of the ugly file
>2. Then I use "find" to remove the file:
>   % find . -inum 12345 -exec rm {} \;

If your terminal gets stuck (or bananas) when listing the directory
containing the offending filename (so "rm -i" gets you stuck, too),
You might want to try:
1. od -c directoryname_containing_offending_entry
2. rm -f ./"`echo 'offending_filename_in_octal_codes'`"

Provided your echo echoes e.g. '\0321' as the corresponding value of the
octal char \121 (i.e. 'Q') with its high order bit set.