Hello, On Fri, 05 Feb 2021, Dave Howorth wrote:
Out of interest I did
$ touch '? ?' $ ls -l ??? | cat -v -rw-r--r-- 1 dhoworth users 0 Feb 5 15:50 ? ?
so I don't know what's supposed to happen?
Actually, the file was not named '?' but named 'Ð', i.e. Oct Dec Hex Char Description 320 208 D0 Ð LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH (from man latin1 / man latin9). So, you'd need to do: $ touch $'\320' $ ls -b \320 And if you're using an ASCII or UTF-8 locale that single byte name is not a valid character, which might explain the problems deleting it. Using 'LC_ALL=en_US.latin1 rm -vi' might help. HTH, -dnh PS: I guess it'd be best to force this mail to be utf8 encoded, so it does not sound all ελληνικά to you ;) -- program (pro'-gram) [n] A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.