help removing a file
    Rohit Gupta 
    gupta at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
       
    Thu Sep  6 04:43:23 AEST 1990
    
    
  
harmon at function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Jim Harmon) writes:
>says it's zhangNevai.tex. I've tried putting a back slash in front of the ?
>and quoting the whole name. I even tried doing `rm -i *` and it matches
>zhangNevai.tex but says there's No such file or directory.
Try using its inode to remove it. First do an 'ls -i' to determine its inode
number. Lets say that this returns 33007. Next enter the following:
	 find . -inum 33007 -exec rm {} \;
That should remove it.
Rohit
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