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From: era@hao.UUCP (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: funny filenames
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 12:22:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 24 12:22:27 1985
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> Here's a problem that hasn't been covered in this discussion yet.
> I have a file (2.9BSD) with a funny name.  I can type "od -c ."
> to see the entry in the directory, and it looks like this:
> 
>    \t 360 200 035 002 \0 \0 \0 \0 and so on.
> 
> "ls" gives me a "    ????" and ll gives "./    ???? not found"
> "rm -i *" says "not found" and passes right by this file, not
> giving me a chance to remove it interactively.  I even tried a recursive
> remove on the whole directory, non-interactively even, and all was
> removed BUT this file.  Even unlink(2) needs a file name.  Any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> 	Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp

main()
{
   unlink("\t\360\200\035\002");
}
-- 

Ed Arnold * NCAR (Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research)
PO Box 3000 * Boulder, CO  80307-3000 * 303-497-1253
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