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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 06:32:47 +0100 (BST)
From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Duplicate '..' in /lib 
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Adam wrote:

> so use 'od' to see what the filename is composed of:
>
> 	eax /tmp % ls -la | grep "\.\." | od -a
> 	 .   .  sp  nl

Managed to get at the contents of the miscreant file:

[alex@tahallah]/lib > od ..*
od: ..: Is a directory
0000000 054501 033560 033122 021564 022552 067571 023157 005057
0000020 031501 075110 033157 045067 021561 005000
0000033

Looks like:

YA7p6R#t%joy&o
/3AzH6oJ7#q

Anyone recognize this?

Anyway I've nuked the file now and seems to be OK now. I think this
probably happened whilst I was installing when the power went out.

Thanks for all your help, and I'll force a fsck on reboot now.

-- 
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