Bizzare Filenames
David Haynes
david at ecr1.UUCP
Thu May 23 19:44:24 AEST 1985
As one who, due to some untrained users, is faced with file names
of this sort quite often, I find that the best method of action is
as follows:
1. use ls | od -ac | more to find out what its called.
2. use rm -i * or rm -i .* to get rid of it.
This seems to work all the time.
David Haynes
Emerald City Research Inc.
..!utzoo!ecrhub!ecr1!david
"Its common to mistake intelligence as the true
opposite of supidity. In fact, the true opposite
of stupidity is opposite stupidity."
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