What does the character code "^N"?

[Katsu39]

Hello All,
I had found the special character "^N" within a file name. When I had done the command "ls -l" in the same directory,the result of the command had been turned to strange character.
When I did the command "ll |more" the file name had been shown like a below.
-rw-rw-rw- root sys 03 MAR 08:40 ^NP^NDep

What does the character "^N" 's mean?

Regards;
Katsu

[Chris Wilshaw]

It's simply a control character that someone has managed to enter while trying to create the file. It's quite a common thing.

To remove this file, use

rm -i *Dep

This will prompt you to remove each file in the directory that ends in Dep so that you only remove the one that you want to.

[Mark Greene_1 · Accepted solution]

The "^N" is the key sequence control-N. You can do an stty -a to see what that may be mapped to. You can rename the file using the cp command and the control-V sequence to enter the control-N character like this:

cp control-V control-N P control-V D e p

(without the spaces between)

You can then remove the old file with rm using the same method.

HTH

mark

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I suspect it simply means that someone (or a process) entered a caret ("^") followed by an "N" for a pathname. Depending on your display device it could also indicate that someone embedded a Control-N (ASCII 14) in a pathname. It means nothing.

You can get rid of this file by
rm -i *Dep* and answering 'y'.

[Katsu39]

Dear all;
Thank you for your quic replaying.
The problem had been fixed by your advice.
Thank you.

Regards;
Katsu