Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hplisa!hplvli!richd From: richd@hplvli.HP.COM (Rich Dykstra) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: How to delete a file with ^? chars in the name? Message-ID: <1030001@hplvli.HP.COM> Date: 10 Jan 90 14:36:31 GMT References: <7711@unix.SRI.COM> Organization: Loveland Inst. Div Lines: 6 I have found: rm -i * invaluable for removing files containing special characters. To remove file names beginning with a dash (how can this happen?) like "-somename" use: rm -i junk *