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how to remove a file starting AND ending with #

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Lenzer)
Thu Nov 19 12:33:00 1998

From: "George Lenzer" <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:23:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9811200013360.29882-100000@otto.bf.rmit.edu.au>
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I have been having problems deleting files that start and end with the #.
For example:

rm -f #netscape#

produces an error saying that there is an additional parameter expected???

How do I rid my system of such files?

Thanks,
G. Lenzer


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