Hi, Thanks Robert. It worked. Regards, Kumar Message From: Robert Becker Cope [mailto:robert (AT) gonkgonk (DOT) com] Sent: Montag, 11. September 2006 12:05 To: redhat-list (AT) redhat (DOT) com Subject: RE: How to delete the following file "Padiyath Sreekumaran" <kumar.padiyath (AT) psi (DOT) chwrote: By mistake I have created a file with the following name. How can I delete the file? I tried different ways as given below without Success. This is a RedHat 3.0 installation. #ls gives the following -l `cap_to_path 0x34c23d0b 0x00008e9f 0x30298894 0xd1e6f358 0x030d8181 0x700400f9 0x0d818119 0x0006ff03` This should do it: $ rm -- '-l `cap_to_path 0x34c23d0b 0x00008e9f 0x30298894 0xd1e6f358 0x030d8181 0x700400f9 0x0d818119 0x0006ff03`' robert