Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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 \?\?
Id' say it's a dodgy name, might not br ?? at all.
Try
echo ?? | xxd
eg
16:20 [summer@numbat ~]$ echo ?? | xxd
0000000: 3277 2061 7520 6b73 2073 7720 7433 2074 2w au ks sw t3 t
0000010: 6d20 7474 2076 6d0a m tt vm.
16:20 [summer@numbat ~]$ echo ??
2w au ks sw t3 tm tt vm
16:20 [summer@numbat ~]$
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Cheers
John
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