I do that often and here is the sneaky way I deal with it.
make a small perl script that has the following
#!/usr/bin/perl
unlink('something -i weird');
the unlink() does a system call that does not try and interpolate
anything.
Michael Long wrote:
>
> Ummm, I did something very stupid. It looks like I created a file using vi
> and named it with special characters that are not printable. When I do an
> ls -la I get the following line:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 2 mlong other 46622 Jan 11 21:39 yahoolib.c
> -rw-r--r-- 2 mlong other 5941 Jul 2 1999 yahoolib.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mlong other 125 Jan 13 21:06
>
> The last one is the problem. How do I delete it? Any ideas? :)
>
> Michael
>
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