Problem removing a file

[Peter Fales]

In article <695 at flatline.UUCP>, erict at flatline.UUCP (The Evil Mel Fujitsu) writes:
> Ok, I've really done it now.  I've created, in my home directory,
> a file by the name of:
> -ef

It was almost a religious experience when I found a general solution to
this kind of problem:

1) ls -i  (to get the inode number of  the file.  Call it N)
2) find . -inum N -print -exec rm {} \;

It works on every problem I have had:  names with spaces, names with
my KILL or INTR characters, names starting with '-', etc.  

Disclaimer:  Your mileage may vary.

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