From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 29 9:30:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DC26150A1 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 21152 invoked from network); 29 Jul 1999 16:30:01 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 29 Jul 1999 16:30:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:30:01 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Phil Regnauld Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ?? file In-Reply-To: <19990729182638.54524@ns.int.ftf.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Phil Regnauld wrote: > a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality writes: > > I noticed the following file in ~ today: > > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 cjc26 cjc26 255 Jul 15 20:09 ?? > > > > Both 'rm \?\?' and 'rm "??"' respond with "rm: ??: No such file or > > directory". > > rm -i * Or less error-prone: bash-2.02# ls -i 341631 ?? 342177 README.html 24717 pkg 350121 CVS 357958 files 341630 trace 342176 Makefile 222996 patches 39858 work bash-2.02# find . -inum 341631 -remove find: -remove: unknown option bash-2.02# find . -inum 341631 -delete bash-2.02# ls CVS README.html patches trace Makefile files pkg work David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message