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Re: how to remove a file starting AND ending with #
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Thu Nov 19 12:54:50 1998
Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:50:17 -0500
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Refer to the discussion "thread" about removing files beginning with -
(early on in the thread)
In a nutshell, try
rm -f "#netscape#"
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Toby Herring
IS Coordinator
SyncroFlo, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: George Lenzer <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:35 PM
Subject: how to remove a file starting AND ending with #
>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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