Removing a folder with no name

ramky79 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008

I have a folder with no name on unix.(someone created it)
How do i remove this?
anyone came across this kind of a problem please respond.
thanks
ram

era · #2 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008

It is not possible to have a directory which does not have a name. Presumably it contains some whitespace or control characters. Clever use of wildcards might help you isolate it. Does 'ls [!A-Za-z0-9.]*' return the directory in question, and nothing else? Here again, for easier copy+pasting:

Code:

ls [!A-Za-z0-9.]*

bakunin · #3 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008

use "ls -li" (or "ls -lai") to get the inode number, then use "find -inode ....-exec rm {} \;" to remove it.

bakunin

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