OK, I had some odd characters in my mkdir command which resulted in the following directory getting created:


drwxr-xr-x 2 fred fredgroup 512 Apr 12 16:52 /

Any ideas how I get rid of it safely?

Interestingly that's a straight cut'n'paste and there appear to be some odd characters before the /...

Thanks!

Hi Reborg,

Just tried this but it keeps giving me a command continuation prompt ( > )

Is there a way of deleting files/directories via the inode?


Thanks, p.

Yes, you should be able to remove a file using it's inode.

1. cd to the directory containing the file
2. ls -li (will provide inode numbers in the far left column)
3. find . -xdev -inum inode_number -exec rm {} \;

It may not be possible if the name contains a "/".
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/fa...section-2.html

But you could try the
and answer "n" to everything but the problem directory/file.