would have deleted just the bad file and left the Desktop directory alone - rm won't remove directories without the proper options. Or you could just do
Code:
rm *?Desktop?*
and only files with the string "Desktop" and at least one other character before and after would have been deleted.
No.
The command rm *Desktop* would have absolutely no effect on any filename that does not contain the string Desktop. The file that was causing problems in case was named <esc>[32m where <esc> is a visual representation of the ASCII escape character with octal value 033.
This is why ls -l output was important to diagnose the problem. Just using ls -F|od -c produced output that couldn't reliably be used to determine the name of the offending file (other than by knowing that there was a directory named Desktop that sorted immediately after the name of the offending file (and we couldn't see that from the snippet of od output provided by by the OP).
...
Note that if you had shown us the exact output from ls -F|od -c:
Code:
0000000 033 [ 3 2 m \n D e s k t o p / \n ...
instead of saying you had something like:
Code:
0000000 0 3 3 [ 3 2 m \n D e s k t o p / \n
I wouldn't have needed to scratch my head so many times trying to guess at how to specify a way to name the offending file. The extra spaces in the middle of 033 in the output had me doubting my earlier assumptions (even though they turned out to be correct).
I know, sorry for that but I am not able to copy and paste from that machine. It is completely separated. Thanks one more time.
Hello,
I got into a wired state on one of solaris 10 server. When I noticed that server is having some issue, I found that there were dumpadm.conf entries in /etc/shadow and real entries were wiped of. Probably somebody fat fingers.
I was able to boot into failsafe, break SVM mirror, copied... (25 Replies)
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New to Suse - mainly used Solaris.
In solaris dmesg will also show you contents of messages log file but in Suse Liux it doesnt appear to.
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I've been through many threads before i decide to create a separate thread.
I can't really find the solution to my (simple) problem.
Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
As "canar" user I want to run a command, let's say "/opt/ocaml/bin/ocaml" as "duck" user.
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I am not able to get ftp working for Solaris 10 for root user. I am getting login failed error.
331 Password required for root.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
Tried following things already.
1. SFTP works ok, still would like to know why FTP is not working (curious).
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i am new to unix and i have abig task. i have to \run particular commands having root privileges from a non root user. i know sudo is one of the way but i need sum other approach kindly help
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SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint
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Hi,
How can I start CDE for non root user created.For root CDE is working fine but for non root user CDE exits back to login screen after trying for some time.Also I cant see .dt and .dtprofile files in the users home directory.How can I create them.Kindly help.
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Hi I have a doubt, here if a file does not have the write permissions to the root user my script is going to write the data into that file. when i executed the script as root user. Is it correct ... ? (4 Replies)
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