Re: [ProgSoc] Strange filenames

[Pigeon <pigeon@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

> I have recently acquired a few files on my acacia account with filenames
> that send my terminal crazy when I run ls. The craziness of the terminal
> seems to be irreversible using sane or cat'ing a binary. How would one get
> rid of a file that one cannot type the name of? How would it have got
> there in the first place?

	Is that the filename contains some strange codes? If so, try to do
a simple 'ls > output.txt', and then check what those strange codes really
are in the output.txt file... This should be a simple way.

Pigeon.

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