Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!dad From: dad@whuts.ATT.COM (DEGRAAF) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Re: Ghost file Message-ID: <5140@whuts.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 02:21:16 GMT References: <526@auspex.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 14 >The file I created was shown by ls -l as "-rw-r---- ?", > In UNIX Sys V the command ls -b will reveal non-graphic characters that have become part of a filename by printing them in \ddd octal notation. This has saved me much aggravation in similar situations. I always use the -b option. Sometimes the find command can be used to remove or modify files that are otherwise recalcitrant. If you can manage to cause find to select the specific file, either using metacharacters in the name or other selectors, then -exec rm {} \; will do the trick. Dave De Graaf, pancho!dad