[Herts] Mystery File

David Honour thegoatee at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Apr 5 08:46:54 UTC 2009


the wildcarding did the trick, it went with:
rm *\|*

Thanks!
David

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:00:55 +0100
Tony Tibbenham <tony.tibbenham at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:59:36 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> it must be hiding unprintable characters in the file name as you
> cannot create an identically named file in the same folder
> 
> Is the char after the ? a pipe symbol? Can you wildcard the name in
> case there are trailing spaces to get rid of both variants?
> 
> Good luck
> 
> Tony
> 
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