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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Undeletable file Post 303036974 by dpontius on Friday 19th of July 2019 10:07:09 AM
Old 07-19-2019
I'm back. Thanks for your patience, I hope you all haven't lost interest.

Responses to suggestions and requests:

Code:
12FX009:5 dpontius$ ls -li
total 48
963069 -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 dpontius  staff  0 Feb 27  1992 ␀␀Word Finder® Plus™

This is a 2013 MacPro running OSX 10.11.6 with Journaled HFS Plus

Code:
12FX009:5 dpontius$ find . -delete
find: -delete: unlink(./␀␀Word Finder® Plus™): Invalid argument

12FX009:5 dpontius$ namestart=$'\x80\x80'
12FX009:5 dpontius$ rm -rf "${namestart}"*
12FX009:5 dpontius$ ls
␀␀Word Finder® Plus™

This file was on ancient backups that I copied years ago onto my now-spacious hard drive. I suspect that it (and a second file from 1998 I haven't mentioned yet called SurfSim 1.0.0␀ Prefs) were part of some copy protection scheme. I've used neither program for decades. So yes, the file was created on a very different operating system, whatever the Macintosh was running two decades ago.

cheers,
dp
 

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CTYPE_GRAPH(3)								 1							    CTYPE_GRAPH(3)

ctype_graph - Check for any printable character(s) except space

SYNOPSIS
bool ctype_graph (string $text) DESCRIPTION
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, $text, creates visible output. PARAMETERS
o $text - The tested string. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if every character in $text is printable and actually creates visible output (no white space), FALSE otherwise. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A ctype_graph(3) example <?php $strings = array('string1' => "asdf ", 'string2' => 'arf12', 'string3' => 'LKA#@%.54'); foreach ($strings as $name => $testcase) { if (ctype_graph($testcase)) { echo "The string '$name' consists of all (visibly) printable characters. "; } else { echo "The string '$name' does not consist of all (visibly) printable characters. "; } } ?> The above example will output: The string 'string1' does not consist of all (visibly) printable characters. The string 'string2' consists of all (visibly) printable characters. The string 'string3' consists of all (visibly) printable characters. NOTES
Note If an integer between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative val- ues have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string contain- ing the decimal digits of the integer. SEE ALSO
ctype_alnum(3), ctype_print(3), ctype_punct(3). PHP Documentation Group CTYPE_GRAPH(3)
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