No matter how you do it the - at the beginning of the file name is
interpreted as indicating a parameter option, which then causes an error.
There is no way around that other than, on some os's, escaping the -.
That is why the inode procedure is needed.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patterson Joel
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x15191000.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 12:21 PM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: can't delete file!
Can you put it in a file ls > file and then put in the rm and execute
the file?
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Porter
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x57744413.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:59 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: can't delete file!
Actually I stand corrected. In SOME UNIX, even the escape "\" will not
work. You can do an "ls -il" to find the inode and then delete using
find . -inum _the_inode_num -exec rm -i {} \;
Mike
>>> "Michael Porter "
<oracledba-ezmlmshield-x56568257.[Email address protected] 04/05/05
11:48
AM >>>
Nope. That will NOT work.
Try doing:
> "-C"
ls -l *C
That will give you more files than you want. You must escape the "-"
with the "\", and you should always add the "-i" flag with the rm just
to be sure...
M
>>> "henry Wollman "
<oracledba-ezmlmshield-x93475061.[Email address protected] 04/05/05
11:34
AM >>>
try: rm *C
But make sure with an ls *C first that it will be the only file
removed.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Declan Heerey
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x27251514.[Email address protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:18 AM
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: RE: can't delete file!
try renaming the file
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivo Peksens
[mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x9298223.[Email address protected]
Sent: 05 April 2005 12:21
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: can't delete file!
Hello!
Does anyone know how to delete in Solaris a file named like "-C".
I mean rm command does not see it!
Thanks
Ivo Peksens
ivo.[Email address protected]
2005-04-05 14:18:36
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