[plug] a file without a name

[Tamara Thompson]

Sorry, didn't phrase that well---the \177 is apparently the octal representation of unprintable characters.  What to do with that info....

>>> Tony Clark <tony at ballist.net.au> 10/13 4:49 PM >>>
Tamara Thompson wrote:
> 
> Anybody know how to find out what a file is named if in ls it shows up with all data except the filename?
> 
> ls -b   shows it as being named \177, but I can't find out anything more about the file with cat, or more, or vi.  Also 'file *' shows this file as the last entry in the list, with a : and no further data.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tamara

That looks more like a directory to me, which would explain why ls
listed something, the files in the directory.

tony
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