14.11. Deleting Files with Odd Names

Summary Box A perennial problem is deleting files that have strange characters (or other oddities) in their names. The next few articles contain some hints for the following:   Deleting files with random control characters in their names (Section 14.12). Deleting files whose names start with a dash (Section 14.13). Deleting files with "unprintable" filenames (Section 14.14). Deleting files by using the inode number (Section 14.15). Deleting directories and problems that can arise as a result (Section 14.16). We'll also give hints for these:   Deleting unused (or rarely used) files (Section 14.17). Deleting all the files in a directory, except for one or two (Section 14.18). Most tips for deleting files also work for renaming the files (if you want to keep them): just replace the rm command with mv.   -- ML

14.10. Deletion with Prejudice: rm -f		14.12. Using Wildcards to Delete Files with Strange Names

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