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How to delete a file with garbage in its name



   Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 1993 12:04:28 -0700
   From:	Phil Anton <anton@starbase.mitre.org>

   Does anyone know an easy way to delete a file that has garbage in its name?
   I used <Complete> on a name change, and now the file is inaccessible
   to the normal deletion methods.

Use Dired.  Or give Delete File a starname that uniquely matches part
of the name of the file (no good if the entire file name consists of
the #\Complete character).