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

Ted Johnson ted at hpwrce.HP.COM
Fri Jan 12 08:54:06 AEST 1990


>I have a file which is named ^?^?^?H01.b (delete character?) and can't
>find a way to delete it.  An ls -s on the directory produces:
>
>   ..	... (other files)
>    1	???H01.b


1)do an "ls -i" to get the inode number of the file.
2)from the directory that the offensive file is in, do:

	find . -inum N -exec rm {} \;

where N is the inode number of that file.

-Ted



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