"??" file in home dir.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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 \?\?

You can also use the "-i" option to rm.

poc