Can't delete a file with a '?' in the file name, it fails to delete with the message 'the file does not exist'.
I've tried through the terminal using
rm -f ./pathtofile?.mkv
But despite no failure message the file still exists. Any suggestions?
The ? is most likely another non-ASCII symbol that your terminal program is unable to display so it displays ?. This is easily proven - you can execute touch ?.mkv and rm ?.mkv - both command execute just fine.
Files like that are easily deleted using a GUI file manager.
Alternatively you could try using wildcards. If command:
ls pathtofileFewLetters*.mkv
lists a single file you can safely run:
rm pathtofileFewLetters*.mkv`.
Finally you could try the harder but surer way as described in Can not delete files containing special characters in the file name as pointed by Android Dev above.
