Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: bad filenames Keywords: rename Message-ID: <7867@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 11 May 88 13:55:35 GMT References: <10777@steinmetz.ge.com> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <10777@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: >Is there a better way to get rid of a file with a '/' in the name >than diddling the directory? "rm -i *" sure doesn't work here! Odds are excellent that what appears to be / really has the hex value AF, i.e. the high bit is set. Apparently your shell is not 8-bit capable. Why would you think that "rm -i *" should work? Try "rm -ri .".