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

Hexren me at hexren.net
Fri Nov 19 06:09:15 PST 2004


AF> I was editing my named.conf and somehow saved the file
AF> with a trailing backslash and I can't get rid of it.

AF> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    18314 Nov 18 11:35 named.conf
AF> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    18314 Nov 18 11:07 named.conf.save.11-18
AF> -rw-r--r--   1 root  bind    17389 Nov 18 10:58 named.conf\
AF> -rw-r--r--   1 bind  bind     2602 May 25 17:28 named.root

AF> I was using nano and have no clue how I did it.
AF> If I rm named.conf\ it removes the named.conf.

AF> So how do I get rid of named.conf\  ?

AF> Andy


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only shooting in the blue here but have you tried rm 'named.conf\' so
as to instruct the sheel to ignore any special chars it sees. Or rm
named.conf\\ (I seem to recall that you the backslash is the escape
sequenze for the bash so escaping a backslash should lead to a literal
backslash. *guessing*

Hexren



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