[ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix

[Chris Higgins]

> Seeing as how we are on this subject here's one for ya,


Looks like control characters or garbage in the filename...

You could move everything else out of the directory they are in
and then rm -rf it... 


> 
> how do I delete the following files...
> =========================================================
> #ls -las | more
> total 869
>    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:19  unexpected
> 
>               ^
> 
> % Invalid input detected at
>    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:14  unexpected
> 
>              ^
> 
> % Invalid input detected at
>    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:15  unexpected
> 
>             ^
> 
> % Invalid input detected at
>    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:16  unexpected
> 
>  ^
> 
> % Invalid input detected at
> ==========================================================
> 
> ? any help much appreciated, and how would you go about creating them
> 
> Regards
> 
> 	Roy
> 
> p.s. this is on Solaris 5.6
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colm Buckley [mailto:colm at tuatha.org]
> Sent: 23 May 2001 09:35
> To: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin); Irish Linux Users' Group
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 23 May 2001 09:30, you wrote:
> > Quote it ?
> 
> Proinnsias, I'm ashamed of you.
> 
> Quote parsing is performed by the *shell*, and option parsing is
> performed by the *command*.  Quoting the name won't make any
> difference to what 'rm' sees.
> 
> > rm "--preserve-permissions"
> > should do it
> 
> It would be a good idea if people actually *tried* their solutions
> before passing them on as advice...
> 
>            Colm
> 
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> You sound reasonable... Time to up my medication.
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