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peasant13337
peasant13337

Reputation: 225

Unix - ls command shows some "outputted" text as a file

bash-3.2$ ls -ls
total 48
4 -rw-r--r--  1 hdoostie etrade  1545 Aug  8  2012 ~
4 drwxr-xr-- 11 hdoostie etrade  4096 Dec 28  2011 det-us
4 drwxr-xr--  6 hdoostie etrade  4096 Sep 18  2012 etaf
12 -rw-r--r--  1 hdoostie etrade 11867 Jul 31  2012 l:template name="expanded_search">
4 drwxr-xr--  8 hdoostie etrade  4096 Apr 22 11:31 neo
4 drwxr-xr--  5 hdoostie etrade  4096 Jan 29 14:36 neo-apps-skins
4 drwxr-xr--  5 hdoostie etrade  4096 Feb 16  2012 neo-webapp-prospect
4 drwxr-xr--  3 hdoostie etrade  4096 Feb 22  2012 site_04_uat_in_here
4 drwxr-xr--  3 hdoostie etrade  4096 Jun 20  2012 svntest
4 drwxr-xr--  3 hdoostie etrade  4096 Feb 23  2012 xborder_in_here

"l:template name="expanded_search">" is some file content that somehow shows as a file. How do I "delete" this "file"?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 176

Answers (2)

mata
mata

Reputation: 69022

A way of deleting any file, no matter what characters the filename contains is using it's inode numnber. You can show that using:

ls -i

That will shou you the files with the inode number next to them. Then you can delete that file using:

find -ium [inode_number] -exec rm {} \;

But in this case it should also be enough to just quote the filename:

rm 'l:template name="expanded_search">'

Upvotes: 3

dglo
dglo

Reputation: 61

rm l:*

If you're the cautious type:

rm -i l:*

Upvotes: 0

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