"??" file in home dir.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 27 16:04:43 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 21:41 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:20 AM, John Summerfield
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> 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 at 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 at numbat ~]$ echo ??
> > 2w au ks sw t3 tm tt vm
> > 16:20 [summer at 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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