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MadeInGermany and hicksd, thank you very much. As advised, I will proceed with extreme caution.

If there are any MacOS experts listening, I'd appreciate your input.

cheers,
dp

Tried the last suggestion by hicksd8, find and delete, no luck.

Also, I moved the thread to the OS-X forum as that seems more appropriate. I'd intended it to be there from the start.

cheers,...

I'm back. Thanks for your patience, I hope you all haven't lost interest.

Responses to suggestions and requests:

12FX009:5 dpontius$ ls -li
total 48
963069 -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 dpontius staff 0...

Thanks, I didn't catch that, but it's still giving me trouble.

sh-3.2# rm -rf 5
rm: 5/␀␀Word Finder® Plus™: Invalid argument
rm: 5: Directory not empty
sh-3.2#

sigh. I used the "sudo su"...

Thanks, but the zombie remains:

12FX009:4 dpontius$ ls
5
12FX009:4 dpontius$ # rm -rf 5
12FX009:4 dpontius$ ls 5
␀␀Word Finder® Plus™

Thanks so much for the prompt ideas. Unfortunately, none have succeeded. I've repeated tried to delete by dragging and always get "The operation can't be completed because an unexpected error...

Greetings,

I'm trying to delete a file with a weird name from within Terminal on a Mac.
It's a very old file (1992) with null characters in the name: �␀␀Word Finder® Plus™��.

Here are some...