From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 14:37:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674BA37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:37:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com [66.66.120.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092BA43E31 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vega@roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com) Received: by roc-66-66-120-36.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CC06901A22; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:35:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:35:41 -0400 From: mpd To: lists@brenius.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "^L" File, needs to be Removed Message-ID: <20020717213541.GA5188@rochester.rr.com> References: <002501c22dd9$27a47e40$7b01a8c0@afi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002501c22dd9$27a47e40$7b01a8c0@afi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:30:21PM -0400, lists@brenius.com wrote: > server /etc/namedb/ # ls -la |more > total 970 > -rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind - 552 Aug 8 2000 ^L > drwxr-xr-x 2 bind wheel - 10240 Jul 17 17:06 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel - 2560 Jul 17 17:20 ../ > > Can only be opened via (editor of choice) ?, e.g. pico ? > > The file contains a zone file, from ages ago, but the original zone file is fine and > is still there. > > Even after a quick secondary backup of the whole directory, I am hesitant to > perform a rm ? because the directory contains 100's of critical zone files. > > Any safe way to remove it and why sometimes after an ls -la the file comes up > as ^L and other times ? and only can be opened when you specify ? > > Thank you! :) rm The ctrl-v will allow you to remove any file that's named ctrl-something. mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "HOW MANY PLANTS MAY I INSTALL IN THE GROUND???" - Little Girl from "3005 PLANTS" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message