Subject: Re: Un-removable file?
To: T. Sean <71410.25@compuserve.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/20/1997 13:52:05
> "cpin Operations:gzip-1.2.4.tar.gz /Unix\ 
> Box/usr/tschulze/gzip-1.2.4.tar.gz"
> 
> Now I have a 220KB file called "Unix\" on my root directory, and when I 
> try to rm it, I get an error message that the file or directory does not 
> exist.  Still it does show up when I do a "ls -laF".  Is there other way 
> of getting it off my disk?

This shouldn't be too bad. Try "rm Unix\\". When you type just one \,
the shell copies the character AFTER the \. To get a \, you need
to type two.

In the future, for cpin, you can also put quotes around the file name.

Take care,

Bill