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 > > > > -- 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 > 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 \?* -- ======================================================================= The difference between waltzes and disco is mostly one of volume. -- T.K. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
