I have a file on my external hard disk named ._Icon^M.I ended up with this after using my hard disk on old Mac platform machine.I want to delete this file but unable to.For the command 'ls -al' it shows asdr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8192 Mar 6 19:53 ..-????????? ? ?    ?       ?           ? ._Icon?Seeing this I tried to add ownership (using chown) and modify the permissions(using chmod) but the commands are not recognising ._Icon as file or a directory.I tried deleting the file using the command -find . -name '._*' -exec rm '{}' ';'rm is not able to remove as it is not interpreting it as a file or a directoryThe console after running the above command isrm: cannot remove './._Icon\r': No such file or directoryHow do I delete such a file?
Removing file which doesn't have any permissions and attributes
linux;files
A few things you can try:Try to complete the file using tab autocompletion. For examplerm .[TAB]Move all other files from this directory somewhere else and then delete the directory. That should get rid of the file.Move all other files and just run (assuming GNU find) this:find . -type f -deleteDelete all files in the directory that start with a  dot:rm -r .*Get the file's inode and delete it using that. ls -i should show you the inode. Alternatively, runfind . -printf %i %f\nOnce you have the inode, try deleting using find again:find . -inum XXX -deleteTry this Perl script. Change dirname for the name of the directory containing the file and run this from the parent directory. So, if your file is ~/foo/file run this in ~/ and change dirname to foo.perl  -e 'use File::Path qw(remove_tree); remove_tree(dirname)'