How To Delete Files without Names or with special Characters?

[Peinelt]

Hi,

how can i delete a file without a name or with a name which consists of not printed special characters?
I tried to rm the inode, but no success..

any suggestions?

thx!

[Pete Randall]

You can use "rm -i *", responding no to all the files you want to keep and yes to the nameless/special character files.


Pete

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi,
You can use File Manager from DCE session, and delete the appropriate files. Don't forget to empty trash.
Regards,
Borislav

[Jairo Campana · Accepted solution]

>tes||% (file with characters special)
159518 -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Nov 18 10:53 test%

find . -inum 159518 -exec rm {} \;

[john korterman]

Hi,
you can remove a file by its inode like this:
# ls -i ./testfile
3555 ./testfile
# find . -inum 3555 -exec ls -l {} \;

If sure that it is the correct file, then
# find . -inum 3555 -exec rm {} \;
to remove it. Is that how you did it?

regards,
John K.

[Peinelt]

thx :-)

the solution
find . -inum 145258 -exec rm {} \;
works!

[Peinelt]

many solutions are given