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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Undeletable file Post 303036989 by wisecracker on Friday 19th of July 2019 01:01:07 PM

07-19-2019

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This is also my last attempt.
YOU USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
I discovered that Windows CP 1252 certainly does have these characters as single bytes in it.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Windows 1252 code page 8 bit values, (with UTF-8 unicode values shown)...

NULLS=$'\x80\x80'
REG=$'\xAE'
TM=$'\x99'
FILENAME="${NULLS}"'Word Finder'"${REG}"' Plus'"${TM}"

# Should be 20 characters long.
echo "${#FILENAME}"

echo "${FILENAME}"

hexdump -C <<< "${FILENAME}"

##### !!!YOU USE BELOW AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! #####
# rm -f "${FILENAME}"

Example printout:

Code:

Last login: Fri Jul 19 17:52:27 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> cd Desktop/Code/Shell
AMIGA:amiga~/Desktop/Code/Shell> ./Invalid_Filename.sh
20
??Word Finder? Plus?
00000000  80 80 57 6f 72 64 20 46  69 6e 64 65 72 ae 20 50  |..Word Finder. P|
00000010  6c 75 73 99 0a                                    |lus..|
00000015
AMIGA:amiga~/Desktop/Code/Shell> _

REMEMBER! You are messing with a file that is NOT native to OSX 10.11.x.
Save/backup everything you need before removing the final '#' on the last line and then executing this code.
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config::mvp::reader::finder

Config::MVP::Reader::Finder(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Config::MVP::Reader::Finder(3pm)

NAME

       Config::MVP::Reader::Finder - a reader that finds an appropriate file

VERSION

       version 2.200002

DESCRIPTION

       The Finder reader multiplexes many other readers that implement the Config::MVP::Reader::Findable role.	It uses Module::Pluggable to
       search for modules, limits them to objects implementing the Findable role, and then selects the those which report that they are able to
       read a configuration file found in the config root directory.  If exactly one findable configuration reader finds a file, it is used to
       read the file and the configuration sequence is returned.  Otherwise, an exception is raised.

       Config::MVP::Reader::Finder's "build_assembler" method will decline a new assembler, so if none was passed to "read_config", the Findable
       reader to which reading is delegated will be responsible for building the assembler, unless a Finder subclass overrides "build_assembler"
       to set a default across all possible delegates.

METHODS

   default_search_path
       This is the default search path used to find configuration readers.  This method should return a list, and by default returns:

	 qw( Config::MVP::Reader )

AUTHOR

       Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Ricardo Signes.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-16					  Config::MVP::Reader::Finder(3pm)