Ghost file
Jonathan Ballard
asmodeus at tree.UUCP
Sun Nov 20 02:36:39 AEST 1988
In article <17566 at adm.BRL.MIL>, devusr at nswc-oas.arpa writes:
> (Thomas Heil) writes:
> >Hello, folks!
> >
> >I got a little problem with a "ghost file". It appears when I list the
> >contents of a directory, but it can't be accessed in any way - every
> >program tells me it doesn't exist. It can't even be removed.
>
> (Paul De Bra <debra at alice.uucp>) responds:
[ stuff deleted]
> >rm *g*h*o*s*t*
[stuff deleted]
> find . -inum XXX -exec rm {} \;
> where XXX is the inode number reported by ls.
>
> /dave
And another way, which will find out the full name it is uder is to do a
od -cb .
It will run threw and show the ascii and binary code of the directory. If
yours is set up like my the first two chaaracters are the inode number
and the rest (asumming 14 more) on that line is the name. You should see
there if there is any extra characters that ls would not print out.
Then you could use rm to remove it while you add that non-graphic character.
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