Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On 06/25/2011 11:37 AM, lee wrote:
> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
> 
>> ,----
>> | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ ls -la
>> | insgesamt 52
>> | drwxr-xr-x  2 lee lee  4096 25. Jun 15:48 .
>> | drwx------ 12 lee lee 32768 25. Jun 15:48 ..
>> | -rw-r--r--  1 lee lee   116  9. Jun 16:35 -rf
>> | -rw-r--r--  1 lee lee    94  7. Jun 21:19 rm -rf *
>> | -rw-r--r--  1 lee lee    94  7. Jun 21:17 rm -rf \*
>> | -rw-r--r--  1 lee lee    94  7. Jun 21:16 rm -rf 1307474137
>> | lee@yun:~/tmp/naming$ 
>> `----
>>
>> I haven't tried touch, it'll probably work the same. A nice application
>> might be to provide "rm -rf *" as a filename for an attachment to an
>> email?
>>
>> Now how to remove these files gives me something to think about very
>> carefully ... :(
> 
> [cut from here]
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <error.h>
> 
> 
> // the name of the file to be removed:
> #define NAME "none"
> 
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[] ) {
>   int ret;
>   int err;
> 
>   ret = unlink(NAME);
>   err = errno;
>   if(ret) {
>     error(0, err, "unlinking '%s'", NAME);
>   }
>   else {
>     printf("'%s' successfully unlinked\n", NAME);
>   }
> 
>   return ret;
> }
> 
> [cut to here]
> 
> Save it as "removing.c", adjust the name of the file you want to remove
> and run gcc -Wall -Os -o removing removing.c. Than run ./removing to
> remove the file.

Why all the touble?

$ rm 'rm -rf *'

does the job. Or use a file manager.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br