When is a file name not a file name?

Rick Geymont GU.GEYMONT%SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU at wasatch.utah.edu
Sun Jul 23 23:15:38 AEST 1989


The easiest way I have found to remove files with special characters in the
name is to do the following:
do an 'ls -i' and get the inode number
type 'find . -inum # -exec rm {} \;' where # is the inode number.

Works every time...



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