Deleting Files with Odd Names

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 ).
• Deleting files with a "null" name (article ).
• Deleting files whose names that start with a dash (article ).
• Deleting files with "unprintable" filenames (article ).
• Deleting files by using the inode number (article ).
• Deleting directories, and problems that can arise (article ).

We'll also give hints for:

• Deleting unused (or rarely used) files (articles and ).
• Deleting all the files in a directory, except for one or two (article ).

- ML