[geeks] hrm

[Will Mc Donald]

In bash...

rm ?[TAB] [ENTER]

does the job nicely. :)

It actually expands to...

rm \?\?\?\?\?

See this output.

[root at fw tset]# ls
[root at fw tset]# touch ?????
[root at fw tset]# ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep 30 21:28 ?????
[root at fw tset]# rm \?\?\?\?\?
rm: remove `?????'? yes
[root at fw tset]# ll
total 0
[root at fw tset]# rm \?\?\?\?\?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: <geeks at mrbill.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: [geeks] hrm


> How to delete this file?  I've tried all the normal tricks;
> quoting, escaping, etc..
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    admin          0 Sep 24 01:15 ?????
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX