Ugly file name
John Hevelin
jackh%twinpeaks at Sun.COM
Wed May 17 03:44:16 AEST 1989
This has always worked for me, but I haven't
tested it against every conceivable possibility.
1. I use "ls -i" to obtain the i-number of the ugly
file:
% ls -i
12345 ugly'"^H^G& 98765 goodfile2
67890 goodfile1 43210 xyzzy
2. Then I use "find" to remove the file:
% find . -inum 12345 -exec rm {} \;
3. If I want to save the contents of the file before
removing it, I do something like:
find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile
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