[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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