Re: "??" file in home dir.

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On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 21:41 -0500, 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
> >
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> >
> 
> 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
> 
I just created a file called ?? in a dircctory and removed it with:
rm \?\?

There mus tbe some unprintible character in the name. Try?
rm \?*
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