help removing a file

[andrew.d.hay]

In article <1990Sep5.180847.21767 at zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>, harmon at function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Jim Harmon) writes:
> Could someone someone help me with removing a file. On our system we have a
> file that appears as zhang?evai.tex when doing a `ls` but a tab completion
> says it's zhangNevai.tex. I've tried putting a back slash in front of the ?
> and quoting the whole name. I even tried doing `rm -i *` and it matches
> zhangNevai.tex but says there's No such file or directory.

also try ls -lb; the l will give you lots of infornation such as size,
type, permissions, etc. and the b will print control characters (if
any) in the name as \XXX.

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