On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 16:29 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > Anyone know what this is? I couldn't find any relevant pages in Google. > > I have a file called "??" (no quotes) in the home directory of my > mythtv user. When I try to do anything to the file it acts like it's > not there. Is this something that fsck would fix? I don't know if it's > related but I noticed it after using "switchdesk" a few times to try > different desktop managers. Probably came from a a malformed Shell redirect or whatever. Anyway, given that the Shell will interpret ?? to mean "any file with a two-letter name", need to escape the ? characters in order to pass the filename to the Shell, e.g.: rm \?\? You can also use the "-i" option to rm. poc
