Re: Unable to del an OS file with special char - need ideas
From: William Robertson <william_at_williamrobertson.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:26:07 +0100
Message-ID: <487502BF.6080705@williamrobertson.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:26:07 +0100
Message-ID: <487502BF.6080705@williamrobertson.net>
One way:
$ touch C.dat $ echo > -C $ ls -l | grep C -rw-r--r-- 1 williamr staff 1 Jul 9 19:21 -C -rw-r--r-- 1 williamr staff 0 Jul 9 19:21 C.dat
$ rm nosuchfile -C
rm: nosuchfile: No such file or directory
$ ls -l | grep C
-rw-r--r-- 1 williamr staff 0 Jul 9 19:21 C.dat
Another way:
find . -name -C -exec rm {} \;
-----Original message-----
From: vikram singh
Date: 9/7/08 19:04
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have this file by name '-C' created by mistake. I am unable to
> delete this. Any ideas?
>
> /[oraapp_at_greece app]# ls -l
> total 457636
> -rw-r--r-- 1 oraapp oraapp 435824640 Oct 4 2007 -C
> -rw------- 1 oraapp oraapp 32271367 Oct 4 2007 nohup.out/
>
> How can i delete the '-C' file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vikram
>
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