Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 12:06:03 -0500 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: Mauricio Marquez <mmarquez@enlace.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleting a nasty directory entry Message-ID: <4.1.20000203120507.00a24810@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.20000203105930.017d86e0@enlace.net>
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Putting the directory name inside single quotes should do the trick for= you... Ex: =20 rmdir '???`???Nop???KUI??o?N?k' I just checked it out and it works fine on my system (3.3). Good luck, John >How do I go about deleting a nasty directory entry that goes something= like: > >???`???Nop???KUI??o?N?k > >If I try rm I get Unmatched ` . Big mistake if I try rm ???*.* or something >similar. > >It just bothers me that it=B4s there everytime I ls. > >Thanks, > >Mauricio > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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