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Cannot remove file with strange name

Hi,

I don't know how this happened, but I have an 85MB file I'm trying to remove, and regardless of what I try, I can't do it. The filename is: jdk-6u25-linux-i586.bin?e=1318426078&h=1553327594cf7169834cd3425e3f06bc

I'm running CentOS  5.5.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would certainly appreciate them.

Thanks,

Jeff
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I did just now, and it worked great. Doh!, don't know why I didn't think of that.

Awesome, thanks a lot!

Jeff
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Try

rm jdk-6u25-linux-i586.bin*

or

rm 'jdk-6u25-linux-i586.bin?e=1318426078&h=1553327594cf7169834cd3425e3f06bc'

or

ls -li jdk-6u25-linux-i586.bin*

Note the inodenumber from the first column, and use it in

find . -xdev -inum inodenumber -exec rm {} \;



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woolmilkporc,

Thanks for the helpful information, and I appreciate the quiick response. Unfortunately ozo had already provided a solution before I saw this come in. But I will certainly document your techniques in my notes.

Thanks,
Jeff