Re: Weird file names
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:25:03PM +1000, Chris wrote:
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> There was a thread a while back about deleting weird files. Just for
> people interest I had to remove some strange ones today. They were as
> follows:
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> - ---------- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ??
> - ---------- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ??????
> - ---------- 1 username users 0 May 2 1970 ??????????
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> Don't know how they made them, but trying rm '??' or rm \?\? or others
> didn't work. I eventually did rm -rfi *, and said no to everything else.
> However the strange files came up as follows:
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> rm: remove `ÿø'? y
> rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿø'? y
> rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿøÿÿÿø'? y
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> Weird huh? Anybody know why they look different in the directory listing?
It's a "feature" of ls. If you use the '-N' switch, the real names will be
displayed.
Adam Klein
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