1. The output of ls -li on the zombie so we can see the file size, access rights and inode number.
2. What operating system is this?
3. What type of filesystem is this? eg, ZFS, UFS or what?
There are other nuclear options but you would need to do a full filesystem backup first, then keep users off until the job is done.
We are talking filesystem internals now.
Hmm, looking at the hexdump reminded me of something that happened in my AMIGA heydays...
Because you quoted that file dates back to 1992 maybe instead of each 'NUL' character being decoded as a UNICODE, they are a single byte ONLY.
I suspect that each 'NUL' is not 0xE2 0x90 0x80 but is in fact ONLY 0x00 with the top bit set giving 0x80 and they are being interpreted as UNICODE characters.
I have no idea if this would work but this might work in bash:
This could even apply to the (R) and TM characters as well.
Just a lateral thought.
I know that you say that you want to delete this "zombie" file but do you know how it got there? With a name like that including unprintable characters and possibly a set inode number I have a thought that it could be part of a license key for an age-old application. If you are still using that application you could find that it stops dead as soon as you succeed in deleting this file.
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