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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Not able to delete this file/directory/entry Post 302498634 by ppathak1234 on Tuesday 22nd of February 2011 04:39:32 AM
Old 02-22-2011
Not able to delete this file/directory/entry

Hello UNIX gurus,

I noticed this file or whatever in one of our directories, and somehow I am not able to proceed with my work, without deleting this one.

.insert--- 1 siebload intrface 0 Feb 22 01:25 Testfile

I am confused, as it doesnt appear to be a file, and on doing any file operations, "rm, mv, cat" doesnt help. It just gives errors:

cat-:
"cat: cannot open Testfile"

rm-:
"Testfile: No such file or directory"

mv-:
mv: cannot access Testfile


help me guys, how do i remove this entry?

---------- Post updated at 04:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:36 AM ----------

One more thing... when I did a listing like this...check the result.

$ ls | grep insert
.insertTestfile

I even tried deleting, moving the file ".insertTestfile", but in vain Smilie
 

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UNBUFFER(1)						      General Commands Manual						       UNBUFFER(1)

NAME
unbuffer - unbuffer output SYNOPSIS
unbuffer program [ args ] INTRODUCTION
unbuffer disables the output buffering that occurs when program output is redirected from non-interactive programs. For example, suppose you are watching the output from a fifo by running it through od and then more. od -c /tmp/fifo | more You will not see anything until a full page of output has been produced. You can disable this automatic buffering as follows: unbuffer od -c /tmp/fifo | more Normally, unbuffer does not read from stdin. This simplifies use of unbuffer in some situations. To use unbuffer in a pipeline, use the -p flag. Example: process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3 CAVEATS
unbuffer -p may appear to work incorrectly if a process feeding input to unbuffer exits. Consider: process1 | unbuffer -p process2 | process3 If process1 exits, process2 may not yet have finished. It is impossible for unbuffer to know long to wait for process2 and process2 may not ever finish, for example, if it is a filter. For expediency, unbuffer simply exits when it encounters an EOF from either its input or process2. In order to have a version of unbuffer that worked in all situations, an oracle would be necessary. If you want an application-specific solution, workarounds or hand-coded Expect may be more suitable. For example, the following example shows how to allow grep to finish pro- cessing when the cat before it finishes first. Using cat to feed grep would never require unbuffer in real life. It is merely a place- holder for some imaginary process that may or may not finish. Similarly, the final cat at the end of the pipeline is also a placeholder for another process. $ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | grep abc | cat abcdef xxxabc defxxx $ cat /tmp/abcdef.log | unbuffer grep abc | cat $ (cat /tmp/abcdef.log ; sleep 1) | unbuffer grep abc | cat abcdef xxxabc defxxx $ BUGS
The man page is longer than the program. SEE ALSO
"Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs" by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995. AUTHOR
Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology 1 June 1994 UNBUFFER(1)
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