how to remove this file from command line?

[ogniemi]

#ls -la|head -2
total 2607
-rw------- 1 root system 428 May 14 12:38
#ls -lb|head -2
total 2472
-rw------- 1 root system 428 May 14 12:38 \015\015\015\015\015\015\015\015\015\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\004\032\032\032\004\004\004

 

[p5wizard]

try in ksh session

ls -lb "^L*^D"

Note: type these ^L and ^D as ctrl-V, followed by ctrl-L and ctrl-V followed by ctrl-D.
if you see the same weird filename (and only that one) appear as before, then use the command

rm -i "^L*^D"

to interactively remove the file; rm -i will prompt with

rm: Remove

(number of nonprintable chars) ?

just type y and enter to remove the file



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[KenCunningham]

Is this the first file in a directory listing as seems to be indicated above?

Have you tried ls |head -1 | xargs -I {} mv () newname

Then rm newname

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

Do an ls -i to get the i-node of the file
Do a find command with the previous i-node
example : to delete file zz.lis in my tmp directory usin i-node (first column in ls -il ):

ls -il /tmp/z*
   52 -rw-r--r--   1 root     system        10240 28 avr 14:03 /tmp/zz.cpio
   12 -rw-r--r--   1 root     system           97 28 avr 14:03 /tmp/zz.lis 

find /tmp -i 12 -exec rm {} \;

 

[mjldba]

The think the interactive method suggested by p5wizzard (rm -i *) is easiest .... works well for me.

 

[kHz]

I like to set an array.

#set -A files $(ls /filesystem)
#print ${files[@]}

find the index of the file you want to remove. count begins at 0.

Then:
#rm ${files[7]} #if the file you want is the eigth file in the list.

 

[costiles]

If you had a number of these, you could do an ls > remove.lst on the directory - then vi edit out the entries that you want to leave - so the file remove.lst would have only the files that you want to remove. Then:

find `cat remove.lst` -print|whiler read name; do rm -ir $name;done

 

[plamb]

do rm -rfi (interactive) say yes to what you want to delete

 

[motoslide]

rm -rfi?
I was on a system once (think it was HP-UX) where the "f" over-rode the "i". So, this just became a recursive remove everything command.

I'm probably just being paranoid.

 

[plamb]

you are correct my fault:
To delete a directory tree, enter:

rm -ir "start point"
for just files rm -i "file " or "*" (all files