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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:30:01 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ?? file
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.990729112651.54834B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990729182638.54524@ns.int.ftf.net>

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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Phil Regnauld wrote:

> a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality writes:
> > I noticed the following file in ~ today:
> > 
> > -rw-rw-r--  1 cjc26  cjc26     255 Jul 15 20:09 ??
> > 
> > Both 'rm \?\?' and 'rm "??"' respond with "rm: ??: No such file or
> > directory".
> 
> 	rm -i *

Or less error-prone:

bash-2.02# ls -i  
341631 ??               342177 README.html       24717 pkg
350121 CVS              357958 files            341630 trace
342176 Makefile         222996 patches           39858 work
bash-2.02# find . -inum 341631 -remove
find: -remove: unknown option
bash-2.02# find . -inum 341631 -delete
bash-2.02# ls
CVS             README.html     patches         trace
Makefile        files           pkg             work


David



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