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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Really weird delete problem Post 302260802 by jim mcnamara on Friday 21st of November 2008 05:12:40 PM
Old 11-21-2008
What does
Code:
ls 2006* | od -c

show?

if ls * does show the files try
Code:
cd /directory/with/wierdfiles
rm *

and answer "n" to everything except the wierdo files.
 

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IBAM(1) 																   IBAM(1)

NAME
IBAM - the Intelligent Battery Monitor SYNOPSIS
ibam [options] DESCRIPTION
IBAM-0.3, the Intelligent Battery Monitor (C) 2001-2004 Sebastian Ritterbusch OPTIONS
-h, --help displays help message -v, --version displays software version -b, --bios show bios apm guesses -s, --seconds displays times in seconds -c, --correctseconds displays changes in seconds -r, --readonly no files will be updated -a, --all show ALL information --battery show battery time --batteryadaptive show adaptive battery time --batterybios show bios battery time guess --percentbattery show battery percentage --percentbios show bios percentage --charge show charge time --chargeadaptive show adaptive charge time --percentcharge show charge percentage --totalbattery show total battery time --totalbatteryadaptive show adaptive total battery --totalcharge show total charge time --totalchargeadaptive show adaptive total charge --plot[=profiles] use gnuplot to plot battery and charge graphs and plot the last <profiles> additional profiles --plotderivations same as above plus standard deviations --plotdeviations same as above plus standard deviations --import import V0.1 data from current directory --profile enable additional yet unused profiling --noprofile disable additional profiling --credits to everyone contributing to ibam AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Martin Wuertele <martin@wuertele.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 2 IBAM(1)
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