How to delete a file with ^? chars in the name?

Roy M. Silvernail roy at comcon.UUCP
Wed Jan 10 20:57:03 AEST 1990


In article <7711 at unix.SRI.COM>, ubi at ginger.sri.com (Ron Ueberschaer x4399) writes:
> I have a file which is named ^?^?^?H01.b (delete character?) and can't
> find a way to delete it.

Here's one way to do it:

/bin/ls>foo
edit foo with vi to delete all other lines and insert rm in front of the
filename in question. Save it and 'sh foo'
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