[Tfug] Deleting file with invalid charcter

[Brian Murphy]

Quoting Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>:
> Escaping unusual character's with a backslash will usually work.  For
> the worst case scenario where you can't figure out what to do, keep a
> copy of mc on your system.  It'll do the job.


The old-school way of doing it before graphical file managers is ls -i
to get the inode number and using find's -inum option with -exec rm.

This method is handy when the first character of the filename is not on
the keyboard.

Brian

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