From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 12:26:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 006B637B401 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:26:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yfT4-000HS9-00; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:26:38 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9UKQbX10744; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:26:37 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:26:37 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whoa what the hell are these files?!!??!!? Message-ID: <20011031092637.A10546@jonc.itouch> References: <20011030101945.48688.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011030101945.48688.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:19:45AM -0800 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 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message