[Tfug] Deleting file with invalid charcter
Glen Pfeiffer
glen at thepfeiffers.net
Fri Jul 6 15:15:14 MST 2007
On 07/06/2007 03:05 PM, Brian Murphy wrote:
> Quoting Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>:
>> Escaping unusual character's with a backslash will usually
>> work. For the worst case scenario where you can't figure out
>> what to do, keep a copy of mc on your system. It'll do the
>> job.
>
> The old-school way of doing it before graphical file managers
> is ls -i to get the inode number and using find's -inum option
> with -exec rm.
Thanks for the great tip!
--
Glen
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