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Re: removing file with newlines in name


From: Maurizio Loreti
Subject: Re: removing file with newlines in name
Date: 30 Nov 2004 15:24:08 +0100
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Frederik Fouvry <fouvry@coli.uni-saarland.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Due to a corrupted tar file, I ended up in a directory with a file
> named like this (between the lines)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> case 't':   get_all_tables = 1;
>                         break;
>             case 'T':   get_all_tables = 2;
> 
> cd
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Any idea on how I can remove it?

keep trying regexp patterns like "ls case*" or "ls *case*", until only
that file shows up; then "rm" the pattern you are satisfied with.

-- 
Maurizio Loreti                         http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/mlo.html
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Padova, Italy              ROT13: ybergv@cq.vasa.vg


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