"??" file in home dir.

inode0 inode0 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 00:34:43 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone know what this is? I couldn't find any relevant pages in Google.
>
>   I have a file called "??" (no quotes) in the home directory of my
>  mythtv user. When I try to do anything to the file it acts like it's
>  not there. Is this something that fsck would fix? I don't know if it's
>  related but I noticed it after using "switchdesk" a few times to try
>  different desktop managers.

try some things like

$ ls -l '??'
$ file '??'

to get started figuring out what it is ... if a text file then

$ cat '??'

to look at it, etc.

John




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