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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How to delete a file with ^? chars in the name?
Message-ID: <1221@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 90 15:59:20 GMT
References: <8000004@hpopd.HP.COM>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <8000004@hpopd.HP.COM>, by andyc@hpopd.HP.COM (Andrew Cunningham):
> Jeremy J. Epstein (jje@virtech.uucp) wrote:
>>In article <130045@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>>> In article <7711@unix.SRI.COM> ubi@ginger.sri.com (Ron Ueberschaer x4399) writes:
>>> >I have a file which is named ^?^?^?H01.b (delete character?) and can't
>>> >find a way to delete it.  An ls -s on the directory produces:

[various weird ideas deleted]

> No C programs, no hacks, just one or two simple commands.  Why does this
> discussion go on forever everytime the question is asked?

Why doesn't anyone suggest 'rm ???H01.b' - assuming that there are no other
file names ending in H01.b which are exactly 8 chars long this will work
fine.
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