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Re: Deleting quest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacques Hugo)
Wed Nov 13 01:26:45 1996
From: Jacques Hugo <jacques@linkage.ctech.ac.za>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:21:35 +0200 (SAT)
In-Reply-To: <199611122357.SAA02521@shell.monmouth.com> from "Willem Riede" at Nov 12, 96 06:16:50 pm
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Ok, thanks. I'll try it out.
-Jacques
> > Hi there ..
> >
> > There's no problem deleting files with a " - " in front, but
> > how do you delete a file with a " ! " (exclamation) in front.
> >
> > Just wondering.
> >
> > -Jacques
>
> You can quote the name '!abc' or - and this works also for characters that
> are not easily typed - use ?abc, but first make sure that that does not
> also match another filename. If all else fails, check the i-number of the
> file
>
> ls -li
>
> and delete the file by i-number
>
> find . -inum xxx -exec rm {} \;
>
> (please check this in the man page, as I've not needed to do this in quite
> a while :-)
>
> Success, Willem Riede.
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