rm command

[Jonathan Caplette]

Hi guys,

I just wanna know how can I remove a file that I accidently named \ (backslash caracter)???

What happened is I was editing (vi) a file and when I saved it up I accidently touch the "\" instead of the "enter" key...

Anyone know how can I delete that crappy file????

Thanks!!
Jonathan

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Very carefully do a rm -i *, answering no to every file but the / one. Ctrl C to get out once you've deleted the /.

Pete

[Sachin Patel]

#cd source_dir
rm -i *

Say no to all other file except the one you want to remove.

Sachin

[Pete Randall]

Make very sure you're in the directory you think you're in, too.

Pete

[Sandip Ghosh]

Re-direct the ls -la command in a file. Then edit that file to remove the particular file. Then run #sh

Sandip

[Craig Rants]

Try rm -- "\" the -- option is little know but works great.

GL,
C

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Safer answer:

rm -i \\*

or rm \
Use the backslash to quote the backslash.

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

#rm -i "\\" works fine (the -i just in case...)

Fr??d??ric

[S.K. Chan]

# rm -i \\*

should be it ..

[Helen French]

# rm -i //*

OR

# rm -i /* ( -i for selective removal)

[Jonathan Caplette]

Thanks for the fast reply...

the command rm -i * worked fine... I didn't try the others..

Thanks again!!
Jonathan

[John Carr_2]

hi

rm -i *filename ( without the backslash ) this way will probably only have to say no once.

John.