Re: rm "fig[1].gif" fails

From: George Reitsma (g.p.reitsma_at_hetnet.nl)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:18:14 +0100

greg byshenk wrote:
> George Reitsma <g.p.reitsma@hetnet.nl> wrote:
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>> Us wrote:
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>>>George Reitsma <g.p.reitsma@hetnet.nl> wrote:
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>
>>>>On one (previous Samba directory) windows created a file fig[1].gif
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>>>>However I cannot remove it.
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> [...]
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>>>>The same happens when I try:
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>>>>#rm fig\[1\].gif
>>>>#rm "fig[1].gif"
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>>>>or
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>>>>#rm "fig\[1\].gif"
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>>>>Everything else I can delete, only this file remains. Weird enough, I
>>>>can open it with Gimp. Also the a name change gives the same
>>>>problems.
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>>>>I use Freebsd 5.1 Release.
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>>>>Anyone has a clue what the problem is?
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>> Yes I am logged in as root. The error message I get is that it cannot
>> find the file, so I suspect it has a problem with those brackets.
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>
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> What are the permissions on the file?
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> I've just done:
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> # touch "fig[1].gif"
> # ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Nov 4 14:35 fig[1].gif
> # rm fig\[1].gif
> # ls -la
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 4 14:35 .
> drwxrwxr-x 12 root wheel 512 Nov 4 14:34 ..
> #
>
> This is running:
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> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 #3: Thu Sep 18 19:23:23 CEST 2003
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>
Is your kernel is more recent then mine? This is what mine says
(dmesg.boot):

FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #1: Thu Oct 9 13:47:02 CEST 2003

These are the attributes of the file

-rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 19970408 Nov 3 20:02 fig[1].gif

Weird enough I cannot even create a file with a name like that. If I try
to create a text file called: test\[1].txt "vi" says: "Shell Expansion
failed." If I create a textfile test.txt and try to copy it:

#cp test.txt test\[1].txt
#cp: No match.

Strange, don't you think?

George

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