From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 09:37:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA05850 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:20 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA05844 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:19 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA06898; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:10 -0800 Message-Id: <199503151737.JAA06898@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: kleymeer@telalink.net (Chris Kleymeer) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: unknown files In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:59:43 CST." <199503151559.JAA09704@eden.telalink.net> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:37:09 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm hoping someone can help me with this, I've got these two files (see >EOF) that contain nothing and which I can not delete. Is there anything I >can do to remove them? They are in my root dir.I am not clear as to how they >were created. Thanks for any help with this. > >drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Nov 22 10:44 var >drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 28 16:29 x11r6 >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 7 13:02 ~^s^F^E^K^~^F^C}^x^O^E^^Bj^h^ >? >^@^?^?^I^C^C^D^D^E^[} >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 7 13:02 ^P^C=XR^Ft^O^O^~^D3P^h^ >uH^B^k^M^P^P^P^O^~^D3P^h^ZU^B^C^D^D^E^@ > >144# rm -f ^P* >rm: No match. rm ??????? By using wildcards (as shown above), you should be able to kill them. The abundance of '?'s is to prevent it from killing files with shorter names that you might want to keep. > chris @8~), > > > *---------------------------------------------------------------------* > | Chris Kleymeer -- Ob_sig. | God is REAL (unless otherwise | > | Finger kleymeer@knuth.mtsu.edu | declared in an explicit type | > | kleymeer@telalink.net | statement or in an implicit | > | bio1001a@frank.mtsu.edu | declaration). -B. Graham | > | chris.kleymeer@nashville.com | | > *---------------------------------------------------------------------* > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================