From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 8:21:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D614137B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from moroni.pp.asu.edu (moroni.pp.asu.edu [129.219.120.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0349043FCB for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from iddwb@moroni.pp.asu.edu) Received: (from iddwb@localhost) by moroni.pp.asu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h1CGLWZ04189; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:21:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:21:32 -0700 From: David Bear To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ???? Message-ID: <20030212092132.A4033@asu.edu> Reply-To: David.Bear@asu.edu References: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com>; from david@skytracker.ca on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:12:32AM -0500 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 Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:12:32AM -0500, David Banning wrote: > I have a file called ??????????????? > have you tried Emacs in dired mode? > Yes, the file is a bunch of question marks. > > I can't seem to clean it away. > > rm ???????? > rm '????????' > rm "????????" > > all do not work. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message