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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Deleting a File with an Erroneous Period Post 5214 by LivinFree on Wednesday 8th of August 2001 11:46:24 PM
Old 08-09-2001

If somehow you have some non-printable characters mixed in the filename, you will have a hard time getting the right filename for rm. If you have the ability to get to the file with a GUI (GNOME, CDE, KDE, etc...) try to delete it from there. If not, use wildcards and hope for the best...

try:
rm -i filename.dat*

The -i flag prompts you before it removes the file. If that matches more than one file in that directory, be sure to type n! If you type y, you'll remove the file forever.

Anyone else have any safer ideas? I've done this before, and used the above method... as best as I can figure, I had some garbled output that created a file named results^H.tx^Hct. The ^H's didn't print in an 'ls'.
 

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kig

KIG(1)								 KDE User's Manual							    KIG(1)

NAME

       kig - an interactive geometry program for KDE

SYNOPSIS

       kig [-c, --convert-to-native [-o, --outfile filename]] [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]

DESCRIPTION

       Kig is an application for interactive geometry. It is intended to serve two purposes:

       o   To allow students to interactively explore mathematical figures and concepts using the computer;

       o   To serve as a WYSIWYG tool for drawing mathematical figures and including them in other documents.

       With this program you can do geometry on a computer just like you would on a blackboard in a classroom. However the program allows you to
       move and change parts of a geometrical drawing so that you can see how other parts change as a result.

       Kig supports loci and user-defined macros. It also imports and exports both to and from foreign file formats including Cabri, Dr. Geo,
       KGeo, KSeg and XFig.

       This application is part of the official KDE edutainment module.

OPTIONS

       -c, --convert-to-native
	   Do not show a GUI. Instead convert the specified file to native Kig format. The native Kig file will be written to standard output
	   unless --outfile is passed.

       -o, --outfile filename
	   Used with --convert-to-native to specify where to save the newly created Kig file. Not specifying this option, or providing a filename
	   of - will output the file to standard output.

SEE ALSO

       More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kig (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kig).

       There is also further information available at the KDE Edutainment website[1].

AUTHORS

       Kig was written by Dominique Devriese devriese@kde.org, Maurizio Paolini paolini@dmf.bs.unicatt.it, Franco Pasquarelli
       pasqui@dmf.bs.unicatt.it, Pino Toscano toscano.pino@tiscali.it, and others.

       This man page based on the one prepared for Debian by Ben Burton bab@debian.org.

AUTHOR

       Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
	   Author.

NOTES

	1. KDE Edutainment website
	   http://edu.kde.org/kig/

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