On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Richard Shaw wrote: > > 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 > > > cd to dir with the file > find | more > > note the inode number of the problem file. > > find -inum number -ls > > Make sure the above returns the correct file. > > then run: > find -inum number -exec rm -i {} \; > > Roger Thanks! That worked. The only thing I did differntley was to use "ll -i' instead of using find | more because I have a lot of files in my home directory and it was painful trying to sort through them all. I also found 'll -b' whch shows the escaped character which is actually how rm found it: -rw-rw-r-- 1 mythuser root 44 2008-03-17 22:10 \340\363\254 Thanks, Richard
