[NTLUG:Discuss] Remove File With Unknown Chars

[Craig Gill]

Quote the file and you can rm it.

rm -rf 'visit.gif?us1218628121'

Craig


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Kenneth Loafman <kenneth at loafman.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Normally I can solve these problems, but I have managed to use wget and
> it created a file like so:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ken ken 85 2008-08-14 23:50 visit.gif?us1218628121
>
> Problem is, I can't 'rm' it, can't remove the directory its in with 'rm
> -rf', and can't remove it with Nautilus.  Wildcards don't work, of
> course, and I can't see how to remove it.
>
> Is there a disk editing tool to see what the directory entry looks like
> and fix it?
>
> ...Ken
>
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