Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:32:34 EDT From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange output Message-ID: <20000406193234.78179.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi:
I think I solved the problem. One further clue: subdirectories didn't seem
to have the problem either.
The strange output seemed to be names of directories and files which I
assume was create by tar when it went about trying to untar/extract the info
in the archive.
These strange names make removing the files and directories difficult. I
used ls -ibF to find the i-node and to find out which were files and which
were directories. Then I removed them using:
find . -inum <i-node> -exec rm {} \; -- for files, and
find . -inum <i-node> -exec rm -R {} \; -- for directories
Note rmdir did not work because it claimed that the directories were not
empty. rm -R "prunes the tree," removing the directory and everything
under it.
John
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