Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:37:29 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whoa what the hell are these files?!!??!!? Message-ID: <15326.44313.97850.989697@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <46977480@toto.iv>
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Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> types: > I accidently tried to untar a .gz file and this is what I got. > > --------- > > drwx------ 3 root wheel 512 Oct 30 02:07 . > -rwsr-sr-t 1 root wheel 0 Oct 30 02:06 > .?`f?q[3UU6????????6????7??u???>?eu?????K????+?O??????d$?9j?pn0??8??q?a???>i8erb > drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Oct 15 23:50 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 203 Oct 16 03:58 cvs-supfile > -rwsr-sr-t 1 root wheel 0 Oct 30 02:06 p??_?W??wm?'????b?? > drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Oct 13 14:08 samba-2.2.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 sameer sysadmin 31723520 Oct 13 16:07 samba-2.2.2.tar > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 15760 Oct 19 15:30 samba.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 sameer sysadmin 3224386 Oct 29 06:20 > tripwire-2.3-47.bin.tar.gz > > ---------- > > What the hell are these funky files? Strings that were where tar expected to find a file name. > Should I get rid of them? You don't have to, but they are a bit of an annoyance. > How should get rid of them? Carefully. Look at them for an unusual string of characters of an unquestionable nature - like "pn0" or "3UU6" in the first one, then do "ls *pn0*" or "ls *3UU6*", and if that lists just one file, then rm the same pattern. Or, if your shell has history, use that to replace the ls with an rm. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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