deleting a file ending with a dot

[Gene C. Ruzicka]

> Hello,
> 
> tar has created a file ending with a dot, and now I can't delete it
> (I've tried rm, del in cmd, explorer, far, unlink call with and without
> -mno-cygwin). What would you suggest before I search an 8-GB volume for
> the directory entry with a disk editor? I would appreciate any help
> (pointers to NTFS directory structure description also welcome).
> Scandisk didn't report any problems.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Baurjan.
> 

i often mistype and end up with a file with a syntactically invalid name. the way
i usually delete such files is to employ "rm -i *," which then prompts
for the removal of every file in the directory. it seems to work even 
for filenames with invalid syntax.

gene


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