rm ABC*

[utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!ajc]

Every once in a while some turkey program comes along and leaves
a file with some unprintable name.

You know it's there because when you do ls you see a file with a
name that prints (for instance) ABC?.

Yet when you do rm ABC? or even stranger rm ABC*, rm responds
"file nonexistent".

If the damn file is nonexistent, why does ls list it??  And if ls
thinks it's there, why can't rm remove it??  Or as Judy Garland
put it so eloquently so many years ago,
   Birds fly over the rainbow...
   Why then, oh why can't I.
~e
~e
~e
                     
~e
~e
~e
(oh, well, I guess ~e doesn't work either.  Guess it's just one
of those days!)