From: tree@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Denise Tree) Subject: Re: [Q] How to delete file with invalid name? Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1993 16:27:55 GMT
In article <930808.005835.3w0.rusnews.w165w@whiffer.mese.com>
jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com (Joe George) writes:
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|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.
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try sunsite.unc.edu:/usr/Linux/docs/MAIL-FAQ
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|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!! :-)
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I always *love* this question. :-)
Do: "rm ./-u*" (forget the quotes). I bet that you could just bring up
that directory in emacs dired and delete it too.
|Anyone got any ideas?
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I like Ed Carp's idea for a support company based on a pile of FAQ's..
I think it would work great. $9000 a month!
|Joe
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|Joe George (jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com,emory!indigo!whiffer!jgeorge)
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