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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Summary: it slices, it dices, and it even edits files..
Keywords: rm cat mv regexp Gnu emacs
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Date: 12 May 89 13:12:00 GMT
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The best method I know of to remove files with shell meta-chars,
spaces etc. in their name is with M-x delete-file in GnuEmacs (you
even get filename completion, for those thesis-lenght filenames.)

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang Rupprecht	ARPA:  wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114)
TEL: (703) 768-2640	UUCP:  mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang