[geeks] hrm

[Mike Ekholm]

what shell are you using?

ekholm at bigone:/tmp> touch '????'
ekholm at bigone:/tmp> ls -l
total 1680
-rw-r--r--   1 ekholm   root           0 Sep 30 15:24 ????
-rw-------   1 ekholm   root      311448 Sep 28 07:40 dtdbcache_:0
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys        10960 Sep 28 07:40 ps_data
-rw-r--r--   1 ekholm   root           0 Sep 28 07:41 sdtvolcheck500
-rw-r--r--   1 ekholm   root           4 Sep 28 07:40 speckeysd.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys       511012 Sep 28 07:40 ups_data
ekholm at bigone:/tmp> rm '????'
ekholm at bigone:/tmp> ls -l
total 1680
-rw-------   1 ekholm   root      311448 Sep 28 07:40 dtdbcache_:0
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys        10960 Sep 28 07:40 ps_data
-rw-r--r--   1 ekholm   root           0 Sep 28 07:41 sdtvolcheck500
-rw-r--r--   1 ekholm   root           4 Sep 28 07:40 speckeysd.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys       511012 Sep 28 07:40 ups_data


this is ksh.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 03:17:55PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> How to delete this file?  I've tried all the normal tricks;
> quoting, escaping, etc..
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    admin          0 Sep 24 01:15 ?????
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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 -Mike Ekholm

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