From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 14:39:26 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 F0F2337B405 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9AAD43E5E for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:39:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 23355 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jul 2002 21:39:20 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2002 21:39:20 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020717163822.01ea5ed0@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:39:35 -0500 To: lists@brenius.com, questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: "^L" File, needs to be Removed In-Reply-To: <002501c22dd9$27a47e40$7b01a8c0@afi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 This might help: UNIX: How To Deal With Filenames Containing Unprintable/Special Characters Oscar At 05:30 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, lists@brenius.com, you 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! :) > > > >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