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Hi Everyone,

I am having problem to delete an "empty" folder ( messages attached ).
It displays "total 12" when i typed "ls -lart" on the fnxroot44 folder, but i can't view any file.

Is there any way to view those unseen files ? I don't know why option "a" is not working this time.

Would appreciate if somebody could give advice on this ?
Thanks in advance !

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kirin{root}162: rm -rf test
rm: Unable to remove directory test/fnxroot44: File exists
rm: Unable to remove directory test: File exists

kirin{root}164: cd test
/export/d12/temp/test
kirin{root}165: ls -lart
total 14
2 drwxrwxrwx 25 root other 1024 Jul 7 17:28 fnxroot44/
10 drwxrwxrwx 3 root 13000 4608 Jul 26 16:40 ./
2 drwxrwxr-x 5 user07 other 512 Nov 7 11:11 ../

kirin{root}170: cd ..
/export/d12/temp/test
kirin{root}172: rmdir fnxroot44
rmdir: directory "fnxroot44": Directory not empty

kirin{root}167: cd fnxroot44/
/export/d12/temp/test/fnxroot44
kirin{root}168: ls -lart
total 12
2 drwxrwxrwx 25 root other 1024 Jul 7 17:28 ./
10 drwxrwxrwx 3 root 13000 4608 Jul 26 16:40 ../
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DeeJay

What does "ls -f" give you? What os? What filesystem type? What mount options were used? What shell are you using? Are you root?

Your ls program is behaving wrong. It must be aliased or functioned. Or perhaps it is part of a rootkit and you have been hacked. Look at the output:
kirin{root}168: ls -lart
total 12
2 drwxrwxrwx 25 root other 1024 Jul 7 17:28 ./
10 drwxrwxrwx 3 root 13000 4608 Jul 26 16:40 ../

Look at that 2 and that 10. Those are the sizes. But "ls -lart" did not request sizes. Somehow your command was translated to "ls -slart". Who did that? Why? What other translations are occurring? Try using the absolute path of ls. Check your PATH environment variable.