remove this file...

Andy B. andyb at stb.info.com
Tue Jun 11 07:53:58 AEST 1991


> lthompso at hpcc01.HP.COM (Larry L. Thompson) writes:
> 
> >/ hpcc01:comp.unix.wizards / priest at cs.odu.edu (Travis L Priest) /  4:30 pm  Jun  4, 1991 /
> 
> >I recently had a file in my dirctory that was incidentally created by
> >a program I ran.  `ls` reported it's name as "N???BZ? " and upon
> >trying to remove it, it logged me out.
> 
> >>My question is: How do you remove a file whose name contains the
> >>"logout" control sequence using standard commands available to sh,
> >>csh, or tcsh ...

How about "rm -i *" ?
Or you might try unlink.

Andy
-- 
If it's not broken...your girlfriend will get bored with it anyway.



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