I didn't, but I have now. It says: rm: cannot remove `W CD\!': No such file or directory Yet 'ls' still shows it as being there. -rw-rw-r-- 1 jeffr jeffr 544 Sep 7 01:43 W CD! Jeff On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: > At 10:34 AM 09/13/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > >Heya, > > > >Somehow I ended up with a file named "W CD!" in my account. When I try to > >view it or remove it or rename it with a command like the following: > > > > rm "W CD!" > > > >I get a message stating: > > > > bash: !": event not found > > > >Any ideas? > > Did you try escaping the exclamation point? Like this: > > rm "W CD\!" > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >