From: erc@apple.com (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: [Q] How to delete file with invalid name? Date: 9 Aug 1993 04:29:35 GMT
Joe George (jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com) wrote:
: 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.
I don't think there is one. There *is* a entworking document in the
works that includes uucp, though. If you can't wait, run, don't walk
to your nearest bookstore and get a copy of "Managing UUCP and Usenet",
one of the absolute best resources around for uucp. Also, you might want to
try reading the documentation that comes with the uucp source!
: 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!! :-)
This doesn't belong here, and is in the FAQ for comp.unix.questions and
several other places.
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