bad filenames

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <10777 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>Is there a better way to get rid of a file with a '/' in the name
>than diddling the directory? "rm -i *" sure doesn't work here!

Odds are excellent that what appears to be / really has the hex value AF,
i.e. the high bit is set.  Apparently your shell is not 8-bit capable.
Why would you think that "rm -i *" should work?  Try "rm -ri .".