Files as files

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Jun 11 06:58:32 1998

On Jun 11, 3:36, Doug Yowza wrote:

> That used to be one of my interview questions for Unix programmers: your
> buggy program just created a filename with {control characters, leading
> dash (-), leading slash (/), '*', etc} in it. How do you delete it?

Quickest general method is "rm -i *", though you may sometimes need
"rm -i .*" instead/as well.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

Received on Thu Jun 11 1998 - 06:58:32 BST