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

Andy Firman andy at firman.us
Fri Nov 19 05:45:39 PST 2004


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:42:01PM +0100, Alexander Petry wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> * Andy Firman <andy at firman.us> [2004-11-19 04:34:43 -0900]:
> > -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\\"

simply doing 

rm named.conf\\ 

worked!

Thanks everyone!


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