Re: Deleting corrupted files with special characters in their file names

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From: Chris W (1qazse4XYZ_at_cox.net.removeXYZ)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:56:36 -0500

Jerold Schulman wrote:

> Try the technique from tip 167 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com
> See tip 5533.
>
> encapsulate the path in quotes.

that looks similar to what I did before but it's not woking here. I
can't type in or copy and past a file name because there are mostly
spaces and just a few other odd characters. The only way I have found
to give me the real name of the file is using cygwin to list the folder
contents and this is what I get. . .

$ ls
ls: t: No such file or directory
ls: N: No such file or directory
ls: + vk
: No such file or directory
ls: Descript.ion: No such file or directory
ls: : No such file or directory
ls: s: No such file or directory
ls: i: No such file or directory
ls: d: No such file or directory
ls: o: No such file or directory
ls: (R: No such file or directory
ls: ¡;@î%+?.: No such file or directory

when I do an rm * I get this. . .

rm: cannot remove ` ': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove ` \241;@\356%+\001.': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `(\aR': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `+\240\240\240vk\n': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `Descript.ion': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `N': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `d': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `i': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `o': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `s': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `t': No such file or directory 

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