Original question ----------------- In one of my users' home dir there are two subdirectories with no name. I suspect there are control characters in there. Is there a way to see what are the characters in the dir name? I.e. examine the inode or something like that. Answers ------- 1) ls -lab This shows the characters as octal number. Arrrgh... I did rtfm on ls but did not associate "non-printing characters" with screen stuff. (Head hung low) 2) ls | cat -vet This will show control characters with a $ at the end of each line. 3) ls -la > /tmp/zzz ; vi /tmp/zzz This will show the control characters. 4) ls | od -c This will show in octal but you need to weed through the output. 5) rm -ri * This is if you just want to remove them. Thanks for the help. Cheers, Rick -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rick von Richter Production Support Manager Voice: 858-831-2222 rickv@mwh.com Maintenance Warehouse/Home Depot Fax: 858-831-2221 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The box says: Win98, WinNT or BETTER. That's why I installed Linux. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [demime 0.99c.7 removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of rickv.vcf] _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Aug 8 16:46:57 2002
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