remove this file...
Jeff Phillips
jjp at necis.UUCP
Sat Jun 8 06:14:14 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jun4.233032.14860 at cs.odu.edu> you write:
>
>I recently had a file in my dirctory that was incidentally created by
>a program I ran. `ls` reported it's name as "N???BZ? " and upon
>trying to remove it, it logged me out.
>[...]
>My question is: How do you remove a file whose name contains the
>"logout" control sequence using standard commands available to sh,
>csh, or tcsh (useful on a system that does not have emacs)? I do not
>[...]
Have you tried "rm -rif ./*" ? Answer 'n' when prompted for removing
all the other files in the directory, and 'y' when prompted for the
file you want to delete.
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