On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:00:22AM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote:
For some reason i sometimes find files with strange names like '??'. When i do a long listing the file name changes to some other bizare character combination. When i try to delete the file using 'rm', or cat it, i can't seem to pass the correct filename to rm (i do try to escape characters, and use 'TAB' but no luck). Is there a way to pass an inode number to rm or cat?
Try "ls -b". It will show you octal codes for non-printable chars, and escape things like spaces, etc. You should be able to cut/paste that to rm. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? (By hasku@rost.abo.fi, Hasse Skrifvars)