Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:09 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: kleymeer@telalink.net (Chris Kleymeer) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: unknown files Message-ID: <199503151737.JAA06898@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:59:43 CST." <199503151559.JAA09704@eden.telalink.net>
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> I'm hoping someone can help me with this, I've got these two files (see >EOF) that contain nothing and which I can not delete. Is there anything I >can do to remove them? They are in my root dir.I am not clear as to how they >were created. Thanks for any help with this. > >drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Nov 22 10:44 var >drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:29 x11r6 >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 7 13:02 ~^s^F^E^K^~^F^C}^x^O^E^^Bj^h^ >? >^@^?^?^I^C^C^D^D^E^[} >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 7 13:02 ^P^C=XR^Ft^O^O^~^D3P^h^ >uH^B^k^M^P^P^P^O^~^D3P^h^ZU^B^C^D^D^E^@ > >144# rm -f ^P* >rm: No match. rm ??????? By using wildcards (as shown above), you should be able to kill them. The abundance of '?'s is to prevent it from killing files with shorter names that you might want to keep. > chris @8~), > > > *---------------------------------------------------------------------* > | Chris Kleymeer -- Ob_sig. | God is REAL (unless otherwise | > | Finger kleymeer@knuth.mtsu.edu | declared in an explicit type | > | kleymeer@telalink.net | statement or in an implicit | > | bio1001a@frank.mtsu.edu | declaration). -B. Graham | > | chris.kleymeer@nashville.com | | > *---------------------------------------------------------------------* > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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