Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: ajh3@usrlib.org (Andrew Hesford) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I delete this file Message-ID: <200105152041.QAA02140@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20010512192606.A3171@core.usrlib.org> from Andrew Hesford at "May 12, 2001 07:26:06 pm"
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Thanks. I installed mc and it worked. Thanks to all who responded. Next time, more sleep and less hacking. Ian As told by, Andrew Hesford > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:15:42PM -0400, User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > > I forgot to add the z flag when I extracted from a tarred file and in > > return got this file... > > > > ?????c???-G???IR??????????I]????[?7jY?#??8?5??t???r???x?????LWL?]|?n?3b?????V??1 > > S???? > > How on earth can I delete this? > > > > Ian > > > I have had this problem before, and as others have said, the question > marks aren't actually question marks (at least not in my experience). > They are unprintable characters, so no trick with quotes or a > double-dash will work. > > To solve this, I install some sort of file manager, which isn't a UNIX > shell. Something like mc will work, or anything that presents a list of > files to chose from. Select the offending file and delete it. > > The key is, if you don't have the GNOME libs (just about everybody does, > I think, since there always seems to be *something* that depends on > them), to find a lightweight file manager that doesn't depend on > anything. On the console, I am not sure what is good. In X, rox-filer is > pretty light (it's in the ports). The problem is, it creates an annoying > ~/Choices folder every time you run it. > > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@usrlib.org > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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