Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

Mark T. Valites wrote:
> How about shells other than bash?
>
> Is there a shell independant way of doing this?
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote:

i browsed a solaris sh man page, and i didn't find anything like $'...'.

you can probably use something like

$ ls > list

then edit the list file to delete the file names not to be removed, add 
the rm command and the quotes, and execute it with

$ sh list

kinda clumsy but it should work anywhere.

pietro.