lynx-dev LYNX: deleting or renaming crazy-named files

[David Combs]

Here is a follow-up I posted to solaris newsgroup, re
deleting files with funny chars in it.

Suggestion from others was of course control-v.

But they never used Lynx!

Like when I say p(rint), and it prompts for file name
to save it to, and I control-u the suggested one
and then PASTE one I have concocted in some other window,
and I've screwed up somehow, and -- well, read the post:

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From: address@hidden (David Combs)                                              
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[2] Re: File named ESC key: delete via emacs DIRED (trick)                      
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Date: Sun Aug 30 16:20:12 PDT 1998
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In article <address@hidden>,
Tony Curtis  <address@hidden> wrote:
>Re: File named ESC key, Chris <address@hidden> said:
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>Chris> I accidently named a file ESC <the ESC key>.  How can
>Chris> I delete this file.  Any help is greatly apprecited
>

A trick I have used when I cut-and-paste a wrong file
name to be saved at a save-to prompt, eg I paste an entire
sentence with newline embedded (so cannot control-u it; is
too late for that!), is to run emacs, do DIRED on current directory,
"s"(ort by time), see the crazy name at the top, and R(ename) or
D(elete) it.

Have no idea how else to do it; control-v sure won't work, since
I cannot even tell what the name is(!), without dIRED.


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I don't know if this should go in faq or not, since not all
lynx users know HOW to use emacs....

They also suggested "rm -i *" -- and hit yes for only the
one you want to remove (or mv -i I suppose).  For some reason
I don't like that idea too much, could make me very :=( (!)