Re: A file that can be seen... but doesn't exist!

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:32:06 +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote:

* ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
| > byte, named \254-][{}\351\350\340. ...
--<snip-snip>--
| Assuming it's the only file in the directory with '351' in the name,
| try:
|
| rm *351*

Caution: this file most probably does not have the three letters '3'
'5' and '1' in its name, but only one letter with octal code 0351.
Dito for the other escape sequences.

R'

You could be right. How about using a GUI file manager to delete it,
assuming it shows up there. One other option: assuming all the other files
are properly named, copy them using a sequence of cp commands (making
sure not to do a copy of the nasty file), to a backup directory and then
'rm *' in the offending area.
.

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