[ale] shell question

[ecashin at noserose.net (Ed Cashin)]

If you're doing this in an interactive bash session, you can probably use
tab completion after starting with "./!".

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to clean up an SD card.  "ls-ahl" gives me this:
>
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users 224K Sep 13 15:04 !?"?#?$?.%?&
> drwx------. 9 kilpatms users  16K Oct  6 15:38 .
> drwxr-x---+ 3 root     root    60 Oct  6 15:33 ..
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users 832K Sep 13 15:04 ????????.???
> drwx------. 5 kilpatms users 192K Aug 27  2011 DCIM
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:35 FOUND.000
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Sep 13 17:08 .fseventsd
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users  32K Jul  4  2012 MISC
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:34 NCFL
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users  512 Oct  6 15:33 NIKON001.DSC
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users  32K Sep 13 15:15 System Volume Information
> drwx------. 4 kilpatms users  32K Oct  6 15:35 .Trash-1000
> drwx------. 2 kilpatms users 256K Nov  1  2014 .Trashes
> -rw-r--r--. 1 kilpatms users    0 Jan  1  1980 USBC??
>
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> I would like to delete the file beginning with ! and the one beginning
> with  ?.
>
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> But when I try "rm !*.*" I get this:
>    rm -ahl.*
>    rm: invalid option -- 'a'
>    Try 'rm --help' for more information.
>
> which leads me to try rm ./!*, which doesn't work;
> neither does rm -- !*
>
>
>
> And when I try "rm ?*.*"  I get this:
>    rm: cannot remove ?FOUND.000?: Is a directory
>
> Clues would be appreciated.
>
> Sean
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  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>
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