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Old 04-08-2010
Hammer & Screwdriver how delete a special file
if i have a file named "."
how to delete it.
thanks .
# 2  
Old 04-08-2010
please ls your directory
# 3  
Old 04-08-2010
Code:
总用量 844528
-rw-rw-r--   1 admin admin         0  4月  1 19:42 ·
-rw-rw-r--   1 admin admin       106  4月  1 19:42 client.conf
-rw-------   1 admin admin  25616384  4月  8 17:02 core.15658
-rw-rw-r--   1 admin admin 644616649  4月  8 22:02 crawler.log

Last edited by pludi; 04-08-2010 at 12:38 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 4  
Old 04-08-2010
Please list again: This "sed" makes funny characters visible. It is not possible to have a file called "." so there must be some hidden characters.

Code:
ls -la | sed -n l

# 5  
Old 04-08-2010
Code:
drwxrwxr-x   7 admin admin      4096  4\346\234\210  8 22:09 \033[00;\
34m.\033[00m$
drwxr-xr-x   6 admin admin      4096  4\346\234\210  8 09:42 \033[00;\
34m..\033[00m$
-rw-rw-r--   1 admin admin         0  4\346\234\210  1 19:42 \033[00m\
\302\267\033[00m$

Last edited by pludi; 04-08-2010 at 12:38 PM..
# 6  
Old 04-08-2010
Please do

Code:
$ find .

in your directory
# 7  
Old 04-08-2010
if i use the command "find ."
there is a item below:
./.
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