Remember that a directory is basicly a table with each entry being a name and an inode. In the usual case of a mysteriously undeletable file the name is some very difficult-to-type string of characters. So we suggest some counter-measure that avoids needing to type the name, such as
cd /directory
rm -i *
There is nothing actually wrong in these cases, we just have a very odd filename.
But notice this:
No odd filename can yield this result. Because the OP succeeded in cd'ing to this directory, he should also have permission to stat(2) the files. A simple "ls -l" should bypass the name problem just a a simple "rm -i *" would. But stat(2) appears to be failing. My guess is that the inode numbers are pointing to unallocated inodes.
In theory, "fsck -f" should fix this, and that is what I would recommend as a start. However, I have not yet encountered this problem in Linux, so I have never tried this myself.
I have a problem I don't understand... I am trying to declare a variable, and then output the results of that variable, couldn't be simpler
#!/bin/ksh
VAR='Oranges'
if
then
echo "Found Lemons"
elif
then
echo "Found Oranges"
fi
The output shouold clearly be "Found Oranges", but... (2 Replies)
I have a few files on my system named:
-rw-------
-rw-r-----
-rw-rw--w-
-rwxrw-r-x
(Yes, it's really the name of the file, not the access permissions, they're 0 bytes large and all created at the same date/time).
I've no idea how they got there but I don't seem to be able to delete them... (2 Replies)
Hi,
How do I delete a file name that starts with a hypen?
e.g. -unix_file_2006_10_3
I always get an erroe when I use rm command. I am using Solaris.
Thanks,
Hi,
One of the Unix books I read to remove this weird file suggest to use:
"rm ./-unix_file_2006_10_3"
which I did today and file... (3 Replies)
Greetings To All!
I am running Solaris 10 in a sparc environment.
Here is the deal:
In /var/spool/cron/crontabs, there is a cron user named "sys". If I do a
crontab -l sys, it returns:
# 0 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
# 20,40 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
# 5 18 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2... (8 Replies)
Guys, I have two files in a directory with weird permissions, size, owner, date etc... the problem is I canīt delete them! I tried to chmod the files and everything, but nothing seems to work. Anyone got any ideas ???
Look:
# ls -l
total 1327968579
?--------- 48 1645863428 2150720025... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to install net-snmp-devel package but i have following dependecy problem.
It's very odd, i don't get it. One of packages is depended on the other one, the other one is depended on the previous one as well. :S :S
Could you help me please?
Here are the steps:
# ls -l
total... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
Sorry for the title because I didn't find a proper name for it. My question is about POSIX functions, such as timer_create(), mq_open() and pthread_create().
void test_queue()
{
struct mq_attr attr;
attr.mq_maxmsg = 10;
attr.mq_msgsize = 64;
mq_unlink("/my_test_queue");... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I created some files with a script and I don't know yet where I did a mistake but the script created some "weird" files...
prd01,/tmp # ls -al
total 706184
-rw-r----- 1 root system 34 Aug 27 16:10
hdisk3BB
hdisk3
hdisk3BB.tmp
drwxrwxrwt 51 bin bin ... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I have a simple awk script:
BEGIN{}
{
$a=$2-$1;
print $a
}
END{if(NR==0){
print "0"
}
}
to which I provide the following input
2.9 14
22.2 27 (4 Replies)