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Operating Systems AIX I created a phantom file now i can't delete it? Post 302107377 by rhfrommn on Friday 16th of February 2007 09:53:13 AM
Old 02-16-2007
I think your best bet is to copy the file again to another name entirely, then do rm tes*.ksh. I expect that will work.

cp test.ksh saved_test.ksh
rm tes*.ksh

Another option is to check your manpage for the "remove with confirmation" option for rm. In solaris it's -i, not sure if it's the same for aix. Then do rm -i * (of course do the correct switch if yours isn't -i) and respond "n" to all the files except the bad one, say "y" to that.
 

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let

let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME

       let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions

SYNOPSIS

   ksh
       let arg...

DESCRIPTION

   ksh
       Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        The value of the last expression is non-zero.

       1        The value of the last expression is zero.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                             let(1)
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