From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!alb Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: rm ABC* Article-I.D.: alice.1498 Posted: Tue Feb 15 16:12:16 1983 Received: Fri Feb 18 04:36:46 1983 References: rlgvax.1051 To get rid of files with unpleasant characters in them, try: rm -ri . This is just goes through and ask you if you want to remove each file, one by one, from . on down (takes a while if you are in a top directory)