On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:20:58AM -0400, Sheri wrote:
> Philip Hazel wrote:
> > In a Unix world, a command such as rm \?\. should work. The other
> > trick is to use rm -i * This tries to remove all files because of
> > the *, but -i makes it prompt for each one, so you can say yes only to
> > the odd file. It always feels very dangerous doing something like that!
> > But if it's the only file in the directory, it's less worrying, of
> > course.
> >
> >
> Hi Philip,
>
> Thanks for the tips, they didn't work tho.
>
> In Msys I tried both rm \?\. and rm -i *
>
> Both immediately reported, with no prompting:
>
> rm: cannot remove `?.': No such file or directory
Perhaps attempt to remove the directory that the bad file is in?
(from windows explorer and mingw/msys)
Bob Rossi
