An eight bit character has been inserted into the file name indicated by ?, you should be able to see it with 'ls -b'. You can remove the file with a wildcard such as *. Or as Reid suggested, remove the whole directory with 'rm -rf'.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 2:32 PM Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > ------- Original Message ------- > 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 >
