"??" file in home dir.

[Richard Shaw]

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 ~]$
>
>
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>
>  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