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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problems removing files with semicolons in the filename Post 302850375 by migurus on Wednesday 4th of September 2013 02:43:17 PM
Old 09-04-2013
I have actually created these file by extracting some uniq ids from some http logs forgetting to replace ';' with some other delimiter. I don't think the disk has any issue.

Actually we did have this box restarted for another reason and fsck -o was run without any issues.

Just to get the inodes I cooked up this code:

Code:
 
  struct dirent *di = {NULL};
  DIR           *cd = {NULL};
  struct stat   stinfo = {NULL};
        if((cd = opendir(path)) == NULL)
                return(-1);
        while((di = readdir(cd)) != NULL)
        {
                if(di->d_name[0] == '.')
                {
                        if(di->d_name[1] == '.' || di->d_name[1] == 0)
                                continue;
                }
                printf("%li\t%s\n", di->d_ino, di->d_name);
        }
        closedir(cd);
        return(0);

and I got those inodes:
Code:
129935  000025;001;1377795616;
129936  000025;003;1377809391;
... etc ...

I hoped I could use find with -inod, but it did not work:
Code:
$ find . -inum 129935 -exec rm {} \;
find: cannot access ./000025;001;1377795616;: No such file or directory (error 2)
find: cannot access ./000025;003;1377809391;: No such file or directory (error 2)
... etc ...

Somehow find listed out all files, not the one pointed by the inode.

The file system is HTFS under OSR 5.8
Any ideas, please?

---------- Post updated at 11:43 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:32 AM ----------

some more info, I debugged my code and printed dirent :


Code:
(dbxtra) p *di
(d_ino = 129935, d_off = 56, d_reclen = 32, d_name = "0")
(dbxtra) p &di->d_name
0x4016b6
(dbxtra) 0x4016b6 / 32 c
0x004016b6:  '0' '0' '0' '0' '2' '5' ';' '0' '0' '1' ';' '1' '3' '7' '7' '7'
0x004016c6:  '9' '5' '6' '1' '6' ';' '\220' '\373' '^A' '\0' 'X' '\0' '\0' '\0'
' ' '\0'

So, I see that name contains several \0 zeroes. Is there any way to remove thises files?
 

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NAME

       rename - renames multiple files

SYNOPSIS

       rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

       "rename" renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as the first argument.  The perlexpr argument is a Perl expression
       which is expected to modify the $_ string in Perl for at least some of the filenames specified.	If a given filename is not modified by the
       expression, it will not be renamed.  If no filenames are given on the command line, filenames will be read via standard input.

       For example, to rename all files matching "*.bak" to strip the extension, you might say

	       rename 's/.bak$//' *.bak

       To translate uppercase names to lower, you'd use

	       rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

OPTIONS

       -v, --verbose
	       Verbose: print names of files successfully renamed.

       -n, --no-act
	       No Action: show what files would have been renamed.

       -f, --force
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ENVIRONMENT

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AUTHOR

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SEE ALSO

       mv(1), perl(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

       If you give an invalid Perl expression you'll get a syntax error.

BUGS

       The original "rename" did not check for the existence of target filenames, so had to be used with care.	I hope I've fixed that (Robin
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