[geeks] hrm

[Mike Ekholm]

the file could have been '????? '
its fun to pipe ls output through od -c  and find spaces.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 03:45:14PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 September 2001 21:17, you 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 ?????
> > What about 'rm -i *' ?
> 
> That did it.  
> 
> What was even stranger was this:
> 
> [localhost:/] root# ls -al
> total 1368329
> < - snip junk ->
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    admin            0 Sep 24 01:15 ?????
> [localhost:/] root# ls '?????'
> ls: ?????: No such file or directory
> 
> Maybe its just a MacOS X-weird-isim.
> 
> Bill
> 
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> Bill Bradford
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> Austin, TX
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 -Mike Ekholm

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