Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1215
On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 09:39 +0000,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> On 25/06/11 17:15, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> $ echo test > \*
> >> $ ls
> >> * Desktop Downloads hdsp.1
> >>
> >> Any idea how I can get rid of the file named *?
> >
> > # touch \* \&
> > # ls
> > * &
> > # find . -type f -name "\*" -print0|xargs -0 rm
> > # ls
> >
> >
> > # touch \* \&
> > # find . -type f -name "\&" -print0|xargs -0 rm
> > # ls
> > *
> >
> >
> > # touch \* \&
> > # ls
> > * &
> > # find . -type f -name "\&" -print0|xargs -0 rm;ls
> *
> > # find . -type f -name "\*" -print0|xargs -0 rm;ls
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
>
> Bigger hammer....
>
> scott@work:~/spec$ touch "*" "&"
> scott@work:~/spec$ ls -A
> * &
> scott@work:~/spec$ rm `ls -A`
> rm: cannot remove `&': No such file or directory
> scott@work:~/spec$ ls -a
> . ..
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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