From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 15:10:15 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 DE25637B423 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 15:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.142.177]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA34747; Sun, 13 May 2001 08:08:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <00ff01c0db30$48a88250$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas" , "Questions" References: <200105121915.PAA00356@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: How can I delete this file Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:09:53 +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 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I get that I try to "mv *.*" to some dummy directory I can delete with all the rubbish inside. Not always do-able but I don't get stuck very often ----- Original Message ----- From: "User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas" To: "Questions" Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 5:15 AM Subject: How can I delete this file > I forgot to add the z flag when I extracted from a tarred file and in > return got this file... > > ?????c???-G???IR??????????I]????[?7jY?#??8?5??t???r???x?????LWL?]|?n?3 b?????V??1 > S???? > How on earth can I delete this? > > Ian > > -- > Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. > > 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