ghost file, use zoo aM
andre
andre at targon.UUCP
Thu Nov 24 23:29:21 AEST 1988
In UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V6#021, Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr at dasys1.uucp>
writes:
>It may be so screwed up that the "*" metacharacter won't expand into such
>a bad name (and if the name starts with ".", then the "*" also won't
>help).
The * metacharacter does expand right, but then the shell strips off the
8th bit. One solution I once found is to use zoo (the archiver) to move
the file into an archive, zoo deletes it if all files are added. Then
you can remove the archive. So if you have zoo running, use:
zoo aM name <first char of name>*
rm name.zoo
--
~----~ |m AAA DDDD It's not the kill, but the thrill of the chase.
~|d1|~@-- AA AAvv vvDD DD Segment registers are for worms.
~----~ & AAAAAAAvv vvDD DD
~~~~~~ -- AAA AAAvvvDDDDDD Andre van Dalen, uunet!mcvax!targon!andre
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