Richard Shaw wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:20 AM, John Summerfield
>
> Id' say it's a dodgy name, might not br ?? at all.
>
> Try
> echo ?? | xxd
>
> eg
> 16:20 [summer@numbat ~]$ echo ?? | xxd
> 0000000: 3277 2061 7520 6b73 2073 7720 7433 2074 2w au ks sw t3 t
> 0000010: 6d20 7474 2076 6d0a m tt vm.
> 16:20 [summer@numbat ~]$ echo ??
> 2w au ks sw t3 tm tt vm
> 16:20 [summer@numbat ~]$
>
if you did what I said, and posted the results instead of interpreting
them yourself, I might be able to say something useful.
Judging from your response to another email, this might be even more useful:
\ls -1 | sort | xxd
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