How to identify and remove ?, ^A, or \001 file on Mac OS X? [closed]

Question

I have a file of unknown origin on Mac OS X that appears as ^A or \001 or ? (question mark) depending on whether I'm looking at the output of ls or git:

(.env)Davids-MacBook-Pro:scripts watson$ ls
?       update_lot.py
(.env)Davids-MacBook-Pro:scripts watson$ git status
# On branch master
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#   "\001"
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
#(.env)Davids-MacBook-Pro:parent watson$ git status scripts/
^A             .env/          update_lot.py 

Does anyone know how to determine the file's origin, identity, and how to delete it? Various methods of listing it via quoting yield nothing.

Answer 1

Most variants of ls(1) (if your MacOSX version cannot, install GNU fileutils and findutils) can give you the inode number of a file ... and most variants of find(1) can search by inode number and -exec rm on it...