[ale] How can I delete this file?

[James Sumners]

How about `rm -- ??funky at file??`

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:36:18 -0400
Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com> wrote:

> Hrm, neither solution seemed to work.  I'm truly stumped on this one.  I 
> have no idea what created these files, I think I cat'ed a binary to the 
> console or something.
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Is there a way I can delete the inode(s) without damaging my filesystem?
> 
> -CB
> 
> 
> Here's the ls -lb output:
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug  1 16:32 
> \276?\277@\300A\301B\302\235\270\216\270\235\234\234\216\270\235\234\234
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug  1 16:32 \276\270\235
> 
> Here's the ls output:
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug  1 16:32 
> ???@?A?B?????????????
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug  1 16:32 ???
> 
> 
> 
> [root at DashPC ~]$ rm  \?\?\?\@\?A\?B\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?
> rm: cannot remove `???@?A?B?????????????': No such file or directory
> [root at DashPC ~]$ rm ./* -i
> rm: cannot lstat `./*': No such file or directory
> [root at DashPC ~]$ rm -i ./*
> rm: cannot lstat `./*': No such file or directory
> [root at DashPC ~]$ rm -i *  
> rm: cannot lstat `*': No such file or directory
> 
> 
> 
> Fletch wrote:
> 
> >>>>>>"Christopher" == Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com> writes:
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >
> >    Christopher> I have a file named: ???@?A?B?????????????
> >
> >    Christopher> (yep, thats the name of it)
> >
> >    Christopher> Can anyone tell me how to delete it?  I've tried the
> >    Christopher> usual tricks, but with no adeu.
> >
> >rm -i ./* # and make sure you only hit Y when you really mean it :)
> >
> >
> >Depending on your shell TAB-completion might be useful (at least zsh
> >would probably handle it gracefully :).
> >
> >
> >Also of interest may be `ls -b' or `ls -B':
> >
> >
> >     -B      Force printing of non-printable characters (as defined by
> >             ctype(3) and current locale settings) in file names as \xxx,
> >             where xxx is the numeric value of the character in octal.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >     -b      As -B, but use C escape codes whenever possible.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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