Subject: [Q] How to delete file with invalid name? From: jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com (Joe George) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1993 00:58:35 EST
Well, I finally decided to install my SLS 1.0 diskettes this weekend,
with marginal success. I've got a very limited system installed and
it's working (even got the kernel to recompile the first try) so I'm
feeling rather proud of myself. However, I have some small questions:
can someone mail me a pointer to the UUCP faq? I can't get this thing to
uucico at all, tho minicom will dialout, so I know the port is working.
During scrolling a file with more (less) I inadvertently turned on less'
optoin to log output to a disk file. I was typing ahead, so I was not
aware that the characters I was typing were going to be used as a
filename, and I now have a file called "-u -v" in /usr/lib/uucp. Yes,
dash-u-space-dash-v. I can't delete it. I can, however, EDIT it, with
joe by enclosing the filename in single quotes, so it's now a 0 length
file, but rm chokes on trying to delete it. rm seems to want to
interpret the -u -v as parameters and I get an error that -u is invalid.
I KNOW THAT!! :-)
Anyone got any ideas?
Joe