On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:20 AM, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ~]$ > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Advice > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 > > You cannot reply off-list:-) > Tried everything everyone suggested, no matter what I do it gives me the standard "No file or directory" blah blah blah... Maybe I should just fsck it and see if it goes away... Richard
