"??" file in home dir.

[John Summerfield]

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 ~]$


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