A perennial problem is deleting files that have strange characters (or
other oddities) in their names. The next few articles contain some
hints for:
-
Deleting files with random control characters in their names
(article
23.12
).
-
Deleting files with a "null" name (article
23.13
).
-
Deleting files whose names that start with a dash (article
23.14
).
-
Deleting files with "unprintable" filenames (article
23.15
).
-
Deleting files by using the inode number (article
23.16
).
-
Deleting directories, and problems that can arise (article
23.17
).
We'll also give hints for:
-
Deleting unused (or rarely used) files (articles
23.19
and
23.20
).
-
Deleting all the files in a directory, except for one or two (article
23.21
).