Re: [OT] Linux snafoo

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I remember I had to do the following on an Unix mainframe, very long
ago; should work in linux as well:
1/ get a directory listing by inodes (it's some option of ls -- "ls -i"
possibly)
2/ rm the file with that inode (possibly "rm -i").

	Look at your local man to get the exact syntax, because I don't
precisely remember it, and I don't have this at hand.

HTH

CChris

> 
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:05:46 -0500
> From: Greg Haberek <g.haberek at comcast.net>
> Subject: [OT] Linux snafoo
> 
> silly linux, 'del' is for windows!
> 
> please forgive me, I'm very new to Linux and this may be a trivial issue, but
> I was wondering if
> those of you fluent in this wonderful OS could help me... somehow, probably by
> my own mistake,
> tar ran into an error, and left a file called "-xvz.tgz" and when I try to rm
> it, I get an
> error..
> 
> rm: invalid option -- x
> 
> how do I delete this file? (mv returns the same error) obviously it thinks I'm
> trying to pass a
> parameter, not a file name
> 
> ~Greg
> g.haberek at comcast.net
> 
> PS: logging in as root doesn't help..
> 
> 
> End of EUforum at topica.com digest, issue 2381

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