How to delete odd-named files (eg. a file called ~!)

[itr0754]

I have a user who accidentally created a file named "~!". How can I delete this file ?? Here's the file description..

-rw-r--r-- 1 iolivera sys 34073 Mar 20 2000 ~!

Thanks for the help !!

 

[bi]

use rm "~!"

 

[Edcrosbys]

rm *\!

would delete everything in your current directory that ended with a !

 

[hiwaycool]

bring up the file manager using X.. you can do it that way also.

 

[grandguy]

Put ./ in front on the file name. In your case it would be ./~

 

[ShawnH9980]

If all else fails this one has worked for me everytime.

Find the inode # of the file.

ls -i

then
find <current dir> -inum <inode #> -exec mv {} asdf \;
I usally rename the file to see if it is needed. Else you could just do <rm {}>.

 

[GazHSCE]

The best way IHMO is:

from within the directory type rm -i *

You will be prompted y/n

 

[bi]

So, let's say you have 100 files in the directory and one of them is named ~!. The file name ~! is going to be the last file in the directory.

Do you really want to answer 100 questions before you get to the file you want to delete?

 

[AlfredB]

Questions for you: What is the real name of this file? Does ls -bl show a different name? I can delete ~! from within sh as well as ksh.

For troublesome files, I create a shell script from ls -b. In this case, knowing that the filename is only two characters long, ls -b ?? > rm.sh. I then edit rm.sh by insertinf rm -i in front of each file I want to remove and removing all others. Then, sh ./rm.sh.