in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Matthew Hunt thusly... > > 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 '?'.
Hey, OP said that file name consisted of '?'. W/o access to OP's system or due to lacking output of (something like) "ls -B" (FreeBSD 4.7-Release), i rather not guess what-could-be. Me no fs (or people) mind reader. Then again i did write "something like" before the proposed solution (which you omitted from the quote). :) > 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 Exactly my point: use "find -inum" to find the offending file(s) & deal w/ it(them) as appropriate. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
