can't get rid of this file with trailing backslash?

Alexander Petry alexpetry at gmx.net
Fri Nov 19 05:42:14 PST 2004


Hi!

* Andy Firman <andy at firman.us> [2004-11-19 04:34:43 -0900]:

> 
> I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file
> with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it.
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    17389 Nov 18 10:58 named.conf\
> -rw-r--r--   1 bind  bind     2602 May 25 17:28 named.root
> 
> I was using nano and have no clue how I did it.
> If I rm named.conf\ it removes the named.conf.
> 
> So how do I get rid of named.conf\  ?

Try: "rm -- named.conf\\"

> 
> Andy
> 

Alex

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