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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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gnome-search-tool

gnome-search-tool(1)						   User Commands					      gnome-search-tool(1)

NAME

       gnome-search-tool - search for files

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-search-tool   [--name=filename]  [--path=folder]  [--sortby=order]  [--descending]  [--autostart]	[--contains=string]  [--user=user]
       [--group=group]	[--nouser]  [--mtimeless=date]	[--mtimemore=date]  [--sizeless=size]  [--sizemore=size]  [--empty]  [--notnamed=filename]
       [--regex=pattern] [--follow] [--allmounts] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       The Search for Files application enables you to search for files on your system. Search for Files uses the find(1) command.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --allmounts     Select the 'Search other filesystems' search constraint.

       --autostart     Automatically start a search.

       --contains=strinSelect  the 'Contains the text' search constraint and set the text of that entry. Use a full filename or a partial filename
		       with wildcards.	See find(1) for more details about using wildcards.

       --descending    Set sort order to descending. The default sort order is ascending.

       --empty	       Select the 'File is empty' search constraint.

       --follow        Select the 'Follow symbolic links' search constraint.

       --group=group   Select the 'Owned by group' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --mtimeless=dateSelect the 'Date modified before (days)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --mtimemore=dateSelect the 'Date modified after (days)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --name=filename Set the text of the 'File is named' entry. Use a full filename or a partial filename with wildcards. See find(1)  for  more
		       details about using wildcards.

       --notnamed=filenSelect  the 'File is not named' search constraint and set the text of that entry. Use a full filename or a partial filename
		       with wildcards.	See find(1) for more details about using wildcards.

       --nouser        Select the 'Owner is unrecognized' search constraint.

       --path=folder   Set the text of the 'Look in folder' entry. Defaults to the current working directory.

       --regex=pattern Select the 'File matches regular expression' search constraint and set the text of that entry. See find(1) for more details
		       about the regular expression patterns that can be used.

       --sizeless=size Select the 'Size is less than (kilobytes)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --sizemore=size Select the 'Size is more than (kilobytes)' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       --sortby=order  Sort files by one of the following: name, folder, size, type, or date.

       --user=user     Select the  'Owned by user' search constraint and set the text of that entry.

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Performing a basic search automatically

       example% gnome-search-tool --name=a.out --path=$HOME --autostart

       Example 2: Performing an advanced search automatically

       example% gnome-search-tool --contains=unistd.h --mtimeless=3 --sortby=size      --autostart

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-search-toExecutable for Search for Files

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-search-tool	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Search for Files Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       find(1), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    2 Oct 2003						      gnome-search-tool(1)
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