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unix remove help
Name: don r Date: October 23, 2001 at 07:39:08 Pacific
Comment:
I am trying to remove a directoy that I found this morning on a unix server. I have no idea where the directory came from. When I try to remove it (rm -r "file name") I get a bad pattern message.
Name: James Boothe Date: October 23, 2001 at 08:23:39 Pacific
Reply:
Don, My guess is that the recursive remove is encountering a weird name as it tries to remove lower-level content, maybe a character in a directory name or file name that is special to the shell. Try to rm lower-level content first, and you might have to use quotes and backslashes. You might have hidden files, and if you are dealing with some weird characters, you can use ls -b which will show non-printable characters as octal values. James
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Name: alan Date: October 25, 2001 at 08:57:50 Pacific
Reply:
don: you can also try rm -i file* this will ask you to confirm the deletion, and isolate your problem
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