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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 10 - 'ls' green for root user only Post 302930112 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 30th of December 2014 10:56:04 AM
Old 12-30-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by achenle
Also:
Code:
rm *Desktop*

would have deleted just the bad file and left the Desktop directory alone - rm won't remove directories without the proper options. Or you could just do
Code:
rm *?Desktop?*

and only files with the string "Desktop" and at least one other character before and after would have been deleted.
No.

The command rm *Desktop* would have absolutely no effect on any filename that does not contain the string Desktop. The file that was causing problems in case was named <esc>[32m where <esc> is a visual representation of the ASCII escape character with octal value 033.

This is why ls -l output was important to diagnose the problem. Just using ls -F|od -c produced output that couldn't reliably be used to determine the name of the offending file (other than by knowing that there was a directory named Desktop that sorted immediately after the name of the offending file (and we couldn't see that from the snippet of od output provided by by the OP).
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gnome-desktop-item-edit

gnome-desktop-item-edit(1)					   User Commands					gnome-desktop-item-edit(1)

NAME

       gnome-desktop-item-edit - GNOME Desktop file editor

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-desktop-item-edit [--create-new] filename

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-desktop-item-edit	is  the GNOME Desktop file editor, which you can use to create or edit the .desktop (known as desktop) file. GNOME
       uses a standard desktop file specification as proposed by freedesktop.org.  A desktop file consists of a number of  name-value  pairs  that
       define  how  a  desktop	should organize a particular application. As this is defined as an open standard, integration of applications into
       GNOME Desktop is relatively straightforward.

       A basic entry in the desktop file must start with a tag called [Desktop Entry]. It can then have a number of name-value pairs as defined by
       the standard.  The minimum entries are as follows:

       Name		       the name of the application

       Comment		       a textual description of the application which is displayed as a tooltip message by gnome-panel. When set appropri-
			       ately, the comment can be localized within the same file.

       Exec		       the name of the actual executable

       Icon		       the file name of the icon image

       Type		       the desktop file type

       Categories	       a multi-string field which is used by gnome-panel to group applications into the appropriate categories.

       These desktop files provide the information to gnome-panel, which     places the application in the appropriate locations on the panel.	In
       a similar manner, the GNOME file manager (Nautilus) uses information from the desktop files to display the 'applications:///' view.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --create-new    Creates a new .desktop file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       filename        The name of the desktop file to be edited or viewed.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Editing an existing .desktop file

       example% gnome-desktop-item-edit fullpath/filename

       This command invokes the launcher dialog and loads the contents of the specified desktop file into the relevant fields.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-iExecutable for GNOME Desktop file editor

       /usr/share/applications/Desktopofile

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-panel		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-panel(1), nautilus(1)

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Ghee Teo, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    2 Oct 2003						gnome-desktop-item-edit(1)
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