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What does a question mark after the file name mean using ls terminal command? I am using a Mac running OS X Yosemite (v.10.10.5)

When I do ls command at terminal, I get back a list of files (the same files I see when using finder) plus one additional file (named Icons?).

This file does not appear in Finder.

I removed it the normal way: rm Icon?

But what happened? How did the file get there? And why the ? file extension?

Mowzer
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? is a single character wild card, so Icon? will match any filename that starts with Icon and contains only one more character such as Icon2.

Julie Pelletier
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