Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

TW wrote:
> > Please post the output of 'ls -la'.
> >     
>
> 	-rw-------  1 user  user        0 2008-11-30 11:32 >
>         [snip]
>
>   
So it's a normal file, with a size of zero bytes, with an odd name. 
(Assuming "ls" has not been compromised.)

Some miscreant app somewhere allowed the creation of a file named by a 
fat-fingered keystroke. Try different apps to delete it (mc, OO.o, GIMP, 
etc).

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Kent