Re: rm difficult filename

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Cameron Hutchison wrote:

> Once upon a time Antonio Rodriguez said...
>  
>
> > When capturing a file from an url with the command
> > mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile archive.rm -playlist url
> > and other variants, by misplacing the option -rtsp-stream-over-tcp a
> > file was created with this name, i.e.,
> > -rtsp-stream-over-tcp is the filename.
> >    
>
> Two common ways:
>
> rm -- -rtsp-stream-over-tcp
>
> or
>
> rm ./-rtsp-stream-over-tcp
>
>
> In the first case, the -- tells rm to stop processing options, in the
> second case you're finding a way to refer to the same file in such a way
> that it does not start with -.
>
>  

Often, too, you can use the TAB key to advance over problematic 
characters, a "?" to represent one of them and "*" to represent any 
number of them. So

rm ?rtsp-stream-over-tcp
rm *over-tcp

Sometimes, what prints as a space is actually something else. That can 
be particularly confusing.

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Cheers
John

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