"??" file in home dir.
Roger Heflin
rogerheflin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 02:58:10 UTC 2008
Richard Shaw wrote:
> 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 ~]$
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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
>
cd to dir with the file
find | more
note the inode number of the problem file.
find -inum number -ls
Make sure the above returns the correct file.
then run:
find -inum number -exec rm -i {} \;
Roger
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