Now I'm having this problem. This happened when using emulators/i386-wine to install a Windows CD, then it caused errors, so I tried to delete it all for a fresh install. This error didn't happen when I was running emulators/wine from a 32bit processor. So I wonder if the difference in the numerical system has something to do with the text not being recognized.
Trying midnight commander didn't work here. The terminals nor midnight commander didn't recognize the text at all. From the upper level directory I tried
I'm still able to move the directory folder containing these odd named files, but not to another filesystem, in this case a RAM filesystem. (please don't explain to me how this thread is 3 or 5 years old)
Without unmounting I did
Trying midnight commander didn't work here. The terminals nor midnight commander didn't recognize the text at all. From the upper level directory I tried
rm -r <directory>
and it gives
Code:
rm : <file names> : invalid argument
Without unmounting I did
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /<directory>/<directory>
on the directory with bad filenames, and rebooted. It worked for me.
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