Subject: Re: Un-removable file?
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dan Bell <dbell@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/20/1997 17:46:48
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 1) rm Unix\\ (character escape)
>
> 2) rm Unix? (wild card matching)
>
> 3) rm Unix* (brute force wild card matching)
>
> 4) rm 'Unix\' (probably, not so sure of this one)
<kludge mode>
If your machine allows incoming ftp, ftp in under a uid that has
permissions to change the un-removable file, and do the following:
ftp>cd /
ftp>del "weirdfile"
ftp>quit
</kludge mode>
Not exactly the approved way, but a decent brute-force approach.
Daniel Bell
JHU CS