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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

[solved]remove file with irregular name

Hi!
I'm not entirely sure, if the Newbie Corner is the right place for this, but as I for some reason at the moment feel a... little... bit stupid and noobish, I guess it should do...:

Well, long story short... after a while of playing with nano, vi, mv, and sed, I sort of managed to create a file named

-'"\'".\hehe\"'\"'*

and a directory that is called

-'"\'".\hehe\"'\"*

... and I sort of can't remove it.

Any ideas?
edit: I tried a gui file manager, but I sort of have no write privileges and can't chown the two, too.

(P.S.: I regret nothing, this HAD to happen sooner or later. I cannot imagine how anyone should be able to avoid it )

Last edited by whoops (2009-06-10 23:54:55)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: [solved]remove file with irregular name

I'd use mc.

Arm-the-Homeless

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 273

Re: [solved]remove file with irregular name

Well, long story short... after a while of playing with nano, vi, mv, and sed, I sort of managed to create a file named

-'"\'".\hehe\"'\"'*

and a directory that is called

-'"\'".\hehe\"'\"*

How the hell did you do that?

whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Re: [solved]remove file with irregular name

Oooh, "Norton Commander"-thingy, great, that obviously did it, thanks!

(And from now on I'm going to try such stuff in /tmp just in case.)

whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 891

Re: [solved]remove file with irregular name

How the hell did you do that?

Don't know exactly... Some script accidentally created a file called

-.cat*

And when I tried to rm*,  rm told me, it couldn't remove it just like that and that I should try:

rm ./'-.cat*'

... so I sort of got a little bit curious and/or carried away.

Last edited by whoops (2009-06-11 00:01:55)