From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 12:32:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f75.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 463BE37B993 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:32:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 78180 invoked by uid 0); 6 Apr 2000 19:32:34 -0000 Message-ID: <20000406193234.78179.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 06 Apr 2000 12:32:34 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange output Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:32:34 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -exec rm {} \; -- for files, and find . -inum -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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message