topic HELP in Operating System - HP-UX

HELP

Nobody's Hero — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:56:54 GMT

Sorry about the multiple entry, I had chicken for lunch. I have a 800 meg file that has the name of an upside down question mark. It was created by Documentum Scanning software. The application dumps all kinds of crazy files. How can I remove it? I tried turning the keyboard upside down when typing, no help. Just kidding, any help appreciated.

Bob

Re: HELP

harry d brown jr — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:59:32 GMT

rm /bin/ladin should do it.

how about rm -i *

Re: HELP

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:01:48 GMT

Hi Robert:

The easist method is 1) cd to the desired directory 2) rm -i * - you will be prompted for each file that you wish to remove; answer 'n' for those you do not want to rm and 'y' for the bad file. As soon as you have answered 'y' you can enter ctrl-c to kill the rm command.

By the way, you can do an ls -b to force the printing of non-ascii characters as octal.

Clay

Re: HELP

Nobody's Hero — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:02:22 GMT

Thanks Harry,
Im a novice. 101......

Re: HELP

Sachin Patel — Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:03:28 GMT

Hi Robert,
What about if you use
#rm -i *.ext (extension if any)

if this file has name tt?tt then
rm -i tt* or rm -i *tt

If this file name is just ? (otherway)
rm -i * and say no until you reach this file.

Sachin

Re: HELP

Darrell Allen — Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:35:24 GMT

If it is just one character try rm -i ?
Don't forget the -i just in case there are more than 1 single character named files.

Darrell