Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:39:35 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: lists@brenius.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "^L" File, needs to be Removed Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020717163822.01ea5ed0@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <002501c22dd9$27a47e40$7b01a8c0@afi>
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This might help: <http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/documents/1/1231/>; UNIX: How To Deal With Filenames Containing Unprintable/Special Characters Oscar At 05:30 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, lists@brenius.com, you wrote: >server /etc/namedb/ # ls -la |more >total 970 >-rw-r--r-- 1 bind bind - 552 Aug 8 2000 ^L >drwxr-xr-x 2 bind wheel - 10240 Jul 17 17:06 ./ >drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel - 2560 Jul 17 17:20 ../ > >Can only be opened via (editor of choice) ?, e.g. pico ? > >The file contains a zone file, from ages ago, but the original zone file >is fine and >is still there. > >Even after a quick secondary backup of the whole directory, I am hesitant to >perform a rm ? because the directory contains 100's of critical zone files. > >Any safe way to remove it and why sometimes after an ls -la the file comes up >as ^L and other times ? and only can be opened when you specify ? > >Thank you! :) > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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