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On Sunday, October 29th, 2023 at 2:19 PM, Rich Shepard
<[email protected]> wrote:
> After 6 hours 40 minutes I stopped the transfer from /media/bkup1 to /mnt/hd
> and deleted /mnt/hd/salmo-root/.
>
> Every file was removed but one. The source is
> /media/bkup1/salmo-root/20230520-0030/tree/.ccache/3/d/8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-1341648.o.
> In the target the file is:
> /mnt/hd/bkup1/salmo-root/20230520-0030/tree/.ccache/3/d/8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-134?648.o
>
> How the name was changed by inserting a '?' I've no idea. Root cannot delete
> this file, even if bracketed with "...".
>
> When root tries to mv the file to the source name the effort fails:
> # mv 8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-134?648.o
> 8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-1341648.o
> # mv: cannot move '8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-134'$'\021''648.o' to
> '8a203b79706a7fd3dcbeb5c173e4e8-1341648.o': No such file or directory
>
> Why might this be happening? What can I do to remove the /mnt/hd/salmo-root/
> directory with this one oddball file?
Any luck with this?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/746048/cant-delete-a-file-with-a-in-the-file-name
Also if it's the only file in the directory (maybe I misunderstood), what
happens when you try to remove the whole directory (`rm -rf <directory_path>`)?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
