[ale] "undeleteable" file

[Geoffrey]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 10:51 am, Mike Panetta wrote:
> 
>>Why fall back to a GUI (that may not even be available, think
>>resuce disk) when ls -b works just fine?
> 
> 
> Because it doesn't do what I want.  If I have a file named '*' then ls -b will 
> report it as named '*'.  So when I remove it with 'rm *' I end up in trouble.

You just need to be careful.  A file that consists of the single 
character '*' can be created as in:

touch \*

It can also be removed as:

rm \*

If you're concerned that may not work, you can reduce the files matched as:

rm ?

Which will remove all files that contain a name with a single character.

> 
> Yes, there are ways to prevent the trouble from happening, but then I have to 
> remember them.

So, you do this often??? :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995