Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:12:19 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> Cc: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to delete a file called ???? Message-ID: <20030212201219.GA84741@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030212192143.GA7742@moo.holy.cow> References: <20030212111232.A6759@skytrackercanada.com> <20030212192143.GA7742@moo.holy.cow>
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:21:43PM -0500, parv wrote:
> find . -inum $( /bin/ls -i | fgrep '?' | awk '{print $1}' ) -print0 \
> | xargs -0 rm -f
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the filename does not really
consist of question marks, but rather of unprintable characters that ls
displays as '?'. Note:
# Note that ^A is a literal control-A, typed with control-V control-A
$ echo > ^A
$ ls
?
I recommend finding the inode number of the offending file:
$ ls -li
total 1
1238024 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mph mph 1 Feb 12 12:07 ?
The inode number in this case is 1238024. Then you can double-check and
delete it with find:
$ find . -inum 1238024
./+
$ find . -inum 1238024 -delete
(Note that find displays the name differently from ls. It looks like a
bold "+" in my xterm.)
--
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http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter.
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