From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 17:27: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from core.usrlib.org (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA2E37B423 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@core.usrlib.org) Received: by core.usrlib.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C5A52A814; Sat, 12 May 2001 19:26:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:26:06 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Cc: Questions Subject: Re: How can I delete this file Message-ID: <20010512192606.A3171@core.usrlib.org> References: <200105121915.PAA00356@scarlet.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200105121915.PAA00356@scarlet.my.domain>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:15:42PM -0400 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 03:15:42PM -0400, User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: > 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?3b?????V??1 > S???? > How on earth can I delete this? > > Ian I have had this problem before, and as others have said, the question marks aren't actually question marks (at least not in my experience). They are unprintable characters, so no trick with quotes or a double-dash will work. To solve this, I install some sort of file manager, which isn't a UNIX shell. Something like mc will work, or anything that presents a list of files to chose from. Select the offending file and delete it. The key is, if you don't have the GNOME libs (just about everybody does, I think, since there always seems to be *something* that depends on them), to find a lightweight file manager that doesn't depend on anything. On the console, I am not sure what is good. In X, rox-filer is pretty light (it's in the ports). The problem is, it creates an annoying ~/Choices folder every time you run it. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@usrlib.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message