[ale] shell question

[Alex Carver]

You can always escape odd characters using backslash, too.



On 2015-10-06 13:40, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Good news/bad news:
> 
> The offending files are gone.
> 
> I have NO idea what command might have done the deed.
> 
> Sometimes I am convinced that computers are, indeed, sentient, and enjoy
> playing little, time-wasting tricks like this.
> 
> Sean
> 
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> On Tue, 2015-10-06 at 16:09 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>> I am trying to clean up an SD card.  "ls-ahl" gives me this:
>>
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users 224K Sep 13 15:04 !µ"µ#µ$µ.%µ&
>> drwx------. 9 kilpatms users  16K Oct  6 15:38 .
>> drwxr-x---+ 3 root     root    60 Oct  6 15:33 ..
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users 832K Sep 13 15:04 ?µ?µ?µ?µ.?µ?
>> drwx------. 5 kilpatms users 192K Aug 27  2011 DCIM
>> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:35 FOUND.000
>> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Sep 13 17:08 .fseventsd
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users  32K Jul  4  2012 MISC
>> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:34 NCFL
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users  512 Oct  6 15:33 NIKON001.DSC
>> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Sep 13 15:15 System Volume Information
>> drwx------. 4 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:35 .Trash-1000
>> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users 256K Nov  1  2014 .Trashes
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users    0 Jan  1  1980 USBCô?
>>
>>
>> I would like to delete the file beginning with ! and the one beginning
>> with  ?.
>>
>>
>> But when I try "rm !*.*" I get this:
>>    rm -ahl.*
>>    rm: invalid option -- 'a'
>>    Try 'rm --help' for more information.
>>
>> which leads me to try rm ./!*, which doesn't work;
>> neither does rm -- !*
>>
>>
>>
>> And when I try "rm ?*.*"  I get this:
>>    rm: cannot remove ‘FOUND.000’: Is a directory
>>
>> Clues would be appreciated.
>>
>> Sean
>>
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