UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi ,

In a particular path the below mentioned three files has been created.
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwprod edw 0 Jun 5 00:06 -f%*lock.clock
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwprod edw 151 Jun 5 00:06 -f.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwprod edw 4 Jun 5 00:06 -f%conn_err.out

But the problem is that I am not able to delete those three files by rm or
rm -rf ( I am using edwprod user while deleting ).

Please help me.

Regards,
Jash

Anupam,
One way you can approach this problem -- notice the "-" (dash)
between the "-f" and the regular expression for the file:

Code:

rm -f - *lock.clock
rm -f - *f.log
rm -f - *err.out

Thanks a lot friend . It is working.

Regards
Jash

use,

ls -il to display the file list with inodes.

With inode numbers file can be deleted with,

find + inum ( along with xargs rm )

Another trick I ran across when this happened to me was to do this for example.

Code:

rm ./-f%conn_err.out

UNIX/Linux has a special notation '--' which indicates end of options. From then on the utility will not or should not interpret the arguments as options. Try
rm -- -f%*lock.clock