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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.
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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 .".