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by **Alan Perr** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 03:58:44

... O.K....

In my home directory i have a file with no name and I cannot figure out how
to figure out the name so that I can remove it... here is my ls output

chainsaw% ls -l | more
total 256
-rw-r--r-- 1 aperry sysadmin 1440 Jan 15 20:42
-rwxr--r-- 1 root other 23859 Nov 22 11:28
adduser.sh*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 aperry sysadmin 12269 Aug 22 2001 AdobeFnt.lst

You can see that the first file has no name. How can I remove this file?

Thanks in advance.....

by **Rich Tee** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:34:10

> chainsaw% ls -l | more
> total 256
> -rw-r--r-- 1 aperry sysadmin 1440 Jan 15 20:42
> -rwxr--r-- 1 root other 23859 Nov 22 11:28
> adduser.sh*
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 aperry sysadmin 12269 Aug 22 2001 AdobeFnt.lst

> You can see that the first file has no name. How can I remove this file?

Shouldn't the File With No Name be owned by Clint Eastwood? :-)

Try rm -i *

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by **Alan Perr** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:24:18

I thought of that, but I don't know if this file is important to me or not.
I might have just renamed it by accident, or it could just be a vi mistake,
I am not sure. So I am trying to find a way to see what it is.

Thanks though....

> > chainsaw% ls -l | more
> > total 256
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 aperry sysadmin 1440 Jan 15 20:42
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 root other 23859 Nov 22 11:28
> > adduser.sh*
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 aperry sysadmin 12269 Aug 22 2001 AdobeFnt.lst

> > You can see that the first file has no name. How can I remove this file?

> Shouldn't the File With No Name be owned by Clint Eastwood? :-)

> Try rm -i *

> --
> Rich Teer

> President,
> Rite Online Inc.

> Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
> URL: http://www.rite-online.net

by **Rich Tee** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:57:01

Please don't top post.

Quote:> I thought of that, but I don't know if this file is important to me or not.
> I might have just renamed it by accident, or it could just be a vi mistake,
> I am not sure. So I am trying to find a way to see what it is.

So why did you ask how to remove it?! :-)

ls -b will reveal (in octal) what the hidden characters are.
Translate them from octal, and away you go.

--
Rich Teer

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-online.net

by **CJT** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:39:38

> I thought of that, but I don't know if this file is important to me or not.
> I might have just renamed it by accident, or it could just be a vi mistake,
> I am not sure. So I am trying to find a way to see what it is.

Double click on it in the CDE gui file manager.

> Thanks though....

>>>chainsaw% ls -l | more
>>>total 256
>>>-rw-r--r-- 1 aperry sysadmin 1440 Jan 15 20:42
>>>-rwxr--r-- 1 root other 23859 Nov 22 11:28
>>>adduser.sh*
>>>-rw-rw-rw- 1 aperry sysadmin 12269 Aug 22 2001 AdobeFnt.lst

>>>You can see that the first file has no name. How can I remove this file?

>>Shouldn't the File With No Name be owned by Clint Eastwood? :-)

>>Try rm -i *

>>--
>>Rich Teer

>>President,
>>Rite Online Inc.

>>Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
>>URL: http://www.rite-online.net

by **James H. Caldwel** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:18:19

Quote:> I thought of that, but I don't know if this file is important to me or
not.
> I might have just renamed it by accident, or it could just be a vi
mistake,
> I am not sure. So I am trying to find a way to see what it is.

As Rich said in a later post, you can use "ls -b" to see the unprintable
characters in the file name. You can also use one of the GUI file
managers (/usr/openwin/bin/filemgr or /usr/dt/bin/dtfile) to rename
the file. I would not double click on the file since it may launch the
file in a way that you do not expect.

James H. Caldwell

by **Charles So** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:43:03

> > chainsaw% ls -l | more
> > total 256
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 aperry sysadmin 1440 Jan 15 20:42
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 root other 23859 Nov 22 11:28
> > adduser.sh*
> > -rw-rw-rw- 1 aperry sysadmin 12269 Aug 22 2001 AdobeFnt.lst

> > You can see that the first file has no name. How can I remove this file?

> Shouldn't the File With No Name be owned by Clint Eastwood? :-)

> Try rm -i *

Richard Harris once had a File Named Horse...

Charles

by **Anthony Mandi** » Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:40:31

> > Shouldn't the File With No Name be owned by Clint Eastwood? :-)
...
> Richard Harris once had a File Named Horse...

So was it Michael Jackson who rode on a horse with no name?

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