10 Jun
1998
10 Jun
'98
11:58 p.m.
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