Re: File name with & in it

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 09:11:52 EST


man find...there's a way to find the inode number, then you can do an
-exec rm {} in your find.

Kumar, Praveen (cahoot) wrote:

>Hi *,
> I have a peculiar problem,i had a file on windows whose name had
>an '&' character in it, and unfortunately i have ftp' ied it to my AIX box.
>When i am trying to delete the file, as soon as it encounters the '&'
>character, it comes out as abackground process, it does not even allow me to
>rename the file nor move the file in to a directory (so that i can knock of
>the directory). I suddenly got an idea,that i have connected from another
>system by FTP and renamed that file from ftp prompt, and then i could delete
>the file. I am sure there would be some way doing this from the local
>system.
>
>
>TIA
>Praveen.K
>
>
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