[ale] shell question

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 16:22:17 EDT 2015


rm -i * might work - it will loop over all the directory contents,
prompting for removal, and you can get the files with weird names removed.
Then you can rty the normal methods

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> 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?
>
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> I would like to delete the file beginning with ! and the one beginning
> with  ?.
>
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> 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 -- !*
>
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> 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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