On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:29:01PM -0800, Tom Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:09:27PM +0000, WipeOut wrote: > Start with a simple find or ls to see if you have runaway dir creation. > > ls -lRa . | less > find safer -print | less > find safer -print | od -x |less Actually, I prefer ls -b. prefixed with LANG=C. Eg: $ touch àé $ LANG=C ls -b \303\240\303\251 $ LANG=C rm ./`echo -e '\303\240\303\251'` $ LANG=C ls -b $ Regards, Luciano Rocha