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Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist



On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:02 +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote:
[...snip...]
> #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # cd ~/Maildir/.Applications.\[vim\]/cur
> # ls 1141914051.*
> ls: 1141914051.M484859P8695V0000000000000309Ip0007553_0.draupnir,S=3707:2,S: No such file or directory
> #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

How about using bash and tab completion which is double-strike the <tab>
key.

        bash
        rm 114194051<tab><tab>

That should get you the fully escaped filename, then pressing enter
should delete it.
-- 
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net

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