Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4343 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >>  Op donderdag 31 oktober 2002 18:59, schreef Greg Freemyer:
 >>  > Somehow my /tmp dir is full of junk:
 >>  >
 >>  > -----------
 >>  > # ls
 >>  >  ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?  ..         .X11-unix  `~~~? 
 >>  > ~??~? ~??~?  ~??~?  ~??~?  ~??~?  ~V?~?
 >>  >  ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?  .ICE-unix  .qt        `~~~? 
 >>  > ~??~? ~??~?  ~??~?  ~??~?  ~??~?  ~~~~?
 >>  >  ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?   ??~?  .      .X0-lock   `~~~?      ~??~? 
 >>  > ~??~? ~??~?  ~??~?  ~??~?  ~~#~?  ~~~~?
 >>  > -----------
 >>  >
 >>  > If I try rm * I get a bunch of errors.
 >>  >
 >>  > On other UNIX systems, I have used od -c /tmp to show me the exact
 >>  contents
 >>  > of the driectory, then used that info to delete the files.
 >>  >
 >>  > How do I delete these files in Linux.

 >>  Try with "rm -- \?\?*"

 >>  -- 
 >>  Richard Bos
No luck,

ls -b gives

/tmp # ls -b
\ \021\022Ï\022  \ \025\022Ï\022  \ \031\022Ï\022  ..         `»³Ì\022         \025\022Ï\022   \032\022Ï\022  à­»Å\022
\ \022\022Ï\022  \ \026\022Ï\022  \ \032\022Ï\022  .ICE-unix   \020\022Ï\022   \025\022Ï\022   \033\022Ï\022  à®»Å\022
\ \022\022Ï\022  \ \026\022Ï\022  \ \033\022Ï\022  .X11-unix   \020\022Ï\022   \026\022Ï\023   \035\022Ï\022
\ \023\022Ï\022  \ \027\022Ï\022  \ \033\022Ï\022  .qt         \021\022Ï\022   \030\022Ï\022   \036\022Ï\023
\ \024\022Ï\022  \ \027\022Ï\022  \ \037\022Ï\022  `¬»Å\022    \022\022Ï\022   \031\022Ï\022   ¼#Ì\022
\ \024\022Ï\022  \ \030\022Ï\022  .                `»³Ì\022    \024\022Ï\022   \032\022Ï\022  ÀV\237Î\022

This is bizzarre.  :)

I'm starting to enjoy the challenge.
 
Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
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