Ghost file

Andy Johnson sysop at pinn.UUCP
Fri Nov 18 14:51:35 AEST 1988


In article <8430 at alice.UUCP>, debra at alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes:
> In article <17529 at adm.BRL.MIL> ZAT011%DJUKFA11.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu (Thomas Heil) writes:
> I would suspect that the name of the ghost file contains a non-printable
> character, which doesn't show up when you try ls. A way to find out is
> to make an octal dump of the directory.

You can also type in rm -i *   That will interactively ask you to delete
each file including the ghost file.  

Andy



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