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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:16:26 -0500
From:      "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com>
To:        Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, "'Johan Pettersson'" <johpe159@student.liu.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: rm
Message-ID:  <058BE165CBA8D111A82E0008C79F9E35024862@gfc-mad-dc.gflesch.int>

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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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