On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Munir Nassar wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Scot Jenkins wrote: > > > sooner or later you'll come across filenames with a backspace in them. > > They show up in a ls(1) but are difficult to delete. You can use the > > find(1) command to track them down and remove them: > > there is a much easier way, the midnight commander "mc", it works even > when nautilus and konqueror fail > bash autocompletion handles character escapes quite well also. The nastiest filenames have leading dashes... -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net Forget diamonds, Copyright is forever.