On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:16 -0500, inode0 wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As I said in my original reply several days ago, you can use "rm > > -i" (specifically "rm -i *"). The -i means "interactive". It walks you > > through every file in the directory asking if you want to remove it. To > > be used with great care of course ... > > > > I'm amazed no-one else brought this up. The -i option to rm has been > > around for at least 20 years. Maybe only us oldies remember it (using > > Unix since 1974 :-) > > Since we all have to remove the dumb aliases for root on every install > how could we forget it? :) > > The original question wasn't how to remove it so that might explain it > too. Eventually I expect it would get to that, but figuring out what > the file was, what it contained, how it got there, etc. seem to be > things I'd be interested in doing before I removed it. No doubt interesting to the OP, but since he provided no info whatsoever that would enable us to answer that question, it's hardly something we can go into. I did mention it was probably a misdirected Shell stream (that's what it invariably turns out to be in my experience) but there's not a lot more one can say about it. Cheers poc
