"??" file in home dir.

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Mar 27 03:57:58 UTC 2008


Richard Shaw wrote:
> Thanks! That worked. The only thing I did differntley was to use "ll
> -i' instead of using find | more because I have a lot of files in my
> home directory and it was painful trying to sort through them all.
> 
> I also found 'll -b' whch shows the escaped character which is
> actually how rm found it:
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mythuser root        44 2008-03-17 22:10 \340\363\254

Another method that should have worked nicely, using the output from
ls -b:

rm $'\340\363\254'

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