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