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Subject: Re: Wierd Directory listing
To: jsw@iwww.sitel.net (Jack Winslade)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:55:26 -0500 (CDT)
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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
> 
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