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weird huge file appeared

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jkc924

MIS
Aug 5, 2002
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US
Hi All -

I found a huge file that someone obviously created that I do not know how to get rid of. Any ideas?
Here is the output:

4706 16100 -rw-r----- 1 root system 16486400 Oct 22 13:41 /^?

remove or ls does not recognize the ^?

Thanks....
 
Hi

Do the Following
alias rm="rm -i"
touch gaga
rm gaga
Are you Prompted to give an Answer yes/no ? OK
Then rm ./*
Type yes on ^?
ctrl-c after you have deleted ^?
 
TO AIX6L -

That worked! Thank you, thank you, thank you.....
 
Wonder if rm "^" would have worked.... IBM Certified Confused - MQSeries
IBM Certified Flabbergasted - AIX 5 pSeries System Administration
 
Nope the double quotes don't work. I had this same problem and the only way I could remove it was with the rm -i

Tcorum
 
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