Re: Strange directory in home

On Sat June 14 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Can anyone explain this ?

The name "file:" reminds me of how file managers sometimes refer to
local files in their address/location bar. Some application might
misunderstand expressions such as "file:///home/frank/Desktop" and
therefore create spurious directories and files in your home directory.

You could try to catch processes that access these directories/files
with lsof or fuser, maybe in combination with inotify-wait (package
inotify-tools).

and if there was nothing after the file, the filename might be hidden
characters or A SPACE.. you might try :
$ cd
$ls -la ?

like I did here. What I did was create a file called 1 . The wild card "?"
would find it,and any filename that was 1 character, including a space

# ls -la ?
ls: cannot access ?: No such file or directory
paulandcilla:/etc/udev/rules.d# >1
paulandcilla:/etc/udev/rules.d# ls -la ?
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-06-14 15:56 1
paulandcilla:/etc/udev/rules.d#

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Paul Cartwright
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