From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 15:46:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DBF37B684 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:46:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0UNjbs23569; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:45:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <03c501c08b16$d5547fc0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: , References: <000301c08b15$51ade9a0$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> Subject: Re: can't remove weird filename Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:45:54 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG been there done that :) .... they way I've fixed it is to "adduser" some dummy account, mv * the offending file into the dummy account, then "rmuser" to delete the lot. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Brezny" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 9:35 AM Subject: can't remove weird filename > I accidentally saved a file with vi that had characters created by the arrow > keys in it's name. > > the file appears as > ?[B?[B?[B > > i've not been able to remove it. > > Any Ideas? > > TIA > > Peter Brezny > SysAdmin Services Inc. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message