Bizzare Filenames

David Haynes david at ecr1.UUCP
Thu May 23 19:44:24 AEST 1985


As one who, due to some untrained users, is faced with file names
of this sort quite often, I find that the best method of action is
as follows:

	1. use ls | od -ac | more to find out what its called.

	2. use rm -i * or rm -i .* to get rid of it.


This seems to work all the time. 

				David Haynes
				Emerald City Research Inc.
				..!utzoo!ecrhub!ecr1!david

	"Its common to mistake intelligence as the true
	opposite of supidity. In fact, the true opposite
	of stupidity is opposite stupidity."



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