Re: Weird file names

[Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>]

Chris <chris@ormond.unimelb.edu.au> writes:

> 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:
> 
> - ----------   1 username users           0 May  2  1970 ??
> - ----------   1 username users           0 May  2  1970 ??????
> - ----------   1 username users           0 May  2  1970 ??????????
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> rm: remove `ÿø'? y
> rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿø'? y
> rm: remove `ÿøÿÿÿøÿÿÿø'? y
> 
> 
> Weird huh?  Anybody know why they look different in the directory listing?

Try using a 'ls -b' to get a listing where control characters are
converted to octal format.  You probably should be careful using 'rm
-rfi' since I have heard people say that on some systems the '-f'
option will override the '-i' and ignore it.

-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org


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