On or about Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:25:39 -0500 (CDT) jeffr at odeon.net reportedly said... > > 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! Bash must be treating the ! as a special case, like the ! at the beginning of a shell script. Try these things: - try 'rm W\ <tab>' and see if Bash is smart enouugh to autocomplete the name - start a filemanager like mc or xfm, or and try using that to delete it. - if it is the only file what begins with W, try 'rm W*' or 'mv W* newname'. Hope one of these works :) -.bill.layer.- -.those who are talking don't know, and those who know aren't talking.- -.frogtown.- -.minnesota.- -.u.s.a.-