Bizzare Filenames

[Sam Vause]

In article <10612 at brl-tgr.ARPA> howell at MITRE.ARPA (Chuck Howell) writes:
>> What happens if one (by mistake) creates a file called `ctl-foo' and one
>> didn't know that this was happening.  The next time they did an `ls'
>> of that directory they'd get a `?' and it would be impossible to remove
>> because they don't know the name.
>
>If you really want to know the (non-printing) characters in your 
>filename, you can always ls > somefile.tmp, then vi (or emacs, or
>od -c, or whatever...) somefile.tmp.  [This works on ULTRIX anyway].

One (perhaps less-than-obvious) method of getting rid of weird files is by
the judicious use of "rm -i *".  Sure gets rid of the Klingons!