wierd filenames

[mrn]

We have the following

-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 06 May 2004 ntop.access.log
---xr-Sr-- 1 root system 6228 28 Apr 17:22 T
---xr-Sr-- 1 root system 4197 30 May 2004
---xr-Sr-- 1 root system 1092 07 Feb 09:44

3 files no filename, I've tried ls -albq to show unprintable chars to no avail. The filenames obviously have control chars in. How do I see the true filename?



Mike

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[d3vzero]

Hi Mike,

My bet would be on it being spaces.

Try
ls -m
or Pipe your above output through od.
or Pipe your above output through tr (transposing spaces to something like fullstops).

All the Best.

____________________
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Mondays code.

 

[RodKnowlton]

ls | cat -ev

This will convert any tabs to ^I and throw a $ on to show the end of line.

If you're wanting to execute a command on them, you can get the inode numbers with 'ls -i' and use "find" with the -inum and -exec flags.

To just get rid of them, "rm -i" is your friend.



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

 

[kHz]

I like to use ksh arrays for this.

For example:

#set -A files $(ls /tmp)
#print ${files[@]}

Your non-existing files should be the first three that you can display like:
#print ${files[0]}
#print ${files[1]}
#print ${files[2]}

then delete them:
#rm ${files[0]}
#rm ${files[1]}
#rm ${files[2]}