Re: removing file with newlines in name

[John Lowe]

In message <wgllcjqvxl.fsf@cc.at.coli.uni-sb.de>, Frederik Fouvry 
<fouvry@coli.uni-saarland.de> writes
> Hi,
>
> Due to a corrupted tar file, I ended up in a directory with a file
> named like this (between the lines)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> case 't':   get_all_tables = 1;
>                        break;
>            case 'T':   get_all_tables = 2;
>
> cd
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any idea on how I can remove it?  I tried quite a few things, but none
> that worked.  I usually end up with the error message:
>
> cannot stat `/proj/negra/case \'t\':   get_all_tables = 1;\n break;\n\t 
> case \'T\':   get_all_tables = 2;\n': Invalid argument

Have you tried moving all the other files out to another directory and 
then rm -r on this directory, so you don't need to name the file at all?
--
John Lowe
jrnl@bytetype.co.uk