Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:55:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com> To: jsw@iwww.sitel.net (Jack Winslade) Cc: mjoseff@retribution.net (Matthew Joseff), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wierd Directory listing Message-ID: <199910071755.MAA08592@iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199910071739.MAA16970@iwww.sitel.net> from "Jack Winslade" at Oct 07, 1999 12:39:12 PM
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Also, this is where filemanagers have there place. You may be able to drag and drop this one. In a previous message, Jack Winslade said: > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 10 13:48 xc > > -rwsr-sr-t 1 root wheel 0 Dec 31 1969 ??t?'.?x?? > > |7m?$??1????p???F?N????i?\D?K??<?LtJ? > > ???????????n?^}2z??&??B???????G??????n?B]6?????$s? > > > > WTF is that last entry? I can't remove it for the life of me. > > Ouch! That's a messy one! > > Looks like a corrupt file name with embedded linefeeds and such. > > The trick I use to remove unremovable files is to specify a pattern that > matches only the bad one. I would first try: > > rm *7* > > ... or something like that. > > Alternatively, tar up all the good files to /tmp or something, rm -r the > directory, and reload the tar. That's what I would do anyway. > > Good day JSW > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- HOW DO PEOPLE IN LOVE TYPICALLY BEHAVE? "All of a sudden, the people get movie fever so they can sit together in the dark." --Sherm, age 8 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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