From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 5:37:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1066C37B426 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10371 invoked by uid 100); 30 Oct 2001 13:37:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15326.44313.97850.989697@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:37:29 -0600 To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whoa what the hell are these files?!!??!!? In-Reply-To: <46977480@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Neophyte 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. 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