On Thursday 11 February 2010 19:58:25 ubiquitous1980 wrote:
> With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in /
> unreadable:
>
> for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done
>
> the same of output for ls is similar:
>
> ????????-k?x?B?{????U?I?3s??
> ???N???Q
> ?ܝw?Ϭw??9c̃}}Wz????Ǹ??t
> Ƿ~???
> ?^8?O?
> ?^????cB?f???????v????????V?!?@
> ???8%??????{??8?y??R??g??
> ??=c
> ?$??????̝????????????~Ќ?t?)i}ˌW?6?
> ??:????G?x??g*D???S(?I%?=?m?ۼVݶT??ն)u??K[(????[??4?u???g?_??1M???QL?8*9?P
> 㓋?8M??4=?έ?w3?m?'?Dv??u? ?s?Ƭ????A?q??a]??~:??????.Kd??뗕oi?y????6:˿???
> N}Y?C????ậ?WŠ?W???K0???vY? Z?1??
> ?U0?T*?A??̻?ɸ?ȶ?IJ???????????????????
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
Is the output given from the same shell session in which you ran the command?
Switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and ls things there, perhaps the
garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the terminal emulation.
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