deleting directories with ??? in name
Derrick Ryalls
ryallsd at datasphereweb.com
Mon Mar 15 15:52:21 PST 2004
>
> I've tried lynx, but it did not display the files.
> I tried emacs, but I was only able to rename two of the
> directories to other names I could delete; the other two gave
> me an error of illegal character. I tried 'rm -i -- ?*' but
> it didn't find the files. I tried 'find . -inum 146 -delete'
> but while it gave no error message, the files/directories remain.
>
> Help! How do I delete these odd directories?
> Please CC me in your response as I'm not currently
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>
#mkdir dir?me
#rmdir dir\?me
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