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)