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From: "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com>
To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>,
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Subject: RE: rm
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher
> Michaels
> Well, as those ??? are most likely not actually question 
> marks, but odd
> characters that ls has decided not to show you, typing rm ??* 
> won't work.
> 

If you're using bash you can enclose the filename in quotes " and
it should work.

ie:

rm "?<hit tab here>

I don't know if this would work from other shells.

Ken


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