Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:26:37 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whoa what the hell are these files?!!??!!? Message-ID: <20011031092637.A10546@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <20011030101945.48688.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:19:45AM -0800 References: <20011030101945.48688.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:19:45AM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
>
> 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
[...]
> What the hell are these funky files? Should I get rid of them? How
> should get rid of them?
They're the results of tar trying to create files with binary strings
in the gz'd file. The easiest way to remove them is to do a:
# rm -i *
and type in "y" when it comes up with the funky name. Be careful, or
you'll remove files you want.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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