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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Undeletable file Post 303036964 by rbatte1 on Friday 19th of July 2019 03:59:43 AM

07-19-2019

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Hello dpontius,

Can you get the output from ls -li in the directory? That should list the inode number in the first column. You could then use find like this:-

Code:

/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq # ls -li
total 0
2360780 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rbatte1 rbatte1 0 Jul 19 08:54 ␀␀Word Finder® Plus™
/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq # find . -inum 2360780 -exec rm {} \;
/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq # ls -li
total 0
/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq #

Does that help? If not, what does the output of lsattr give you?

Code:

/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq # rm *
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `␀␀Word Finder® Plus™'? y
rm: cannot remove `␀␀Word Finder® Plus™': Operation not permitted
/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq # lsattr
----i--------e- ./␀␀Word Finder® Plus™
/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq # chattr -i *
/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq # rm *
/tmp/tmp.jwq73hdq #

...... maybe even a combination of this then the find might be needed.

I hope that this helps,
Robin

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NAME

       cdbmake - create a constant database

SYNOPSIS

       cdbmake cdb cdb.tmp

DESCRIPTION

       cdbmake reads a series of encoded records from its standard input and writes a constant database to cdb.

       cdbmake	ensures  that  cdb is updated atomically, so programs reading cdb never have to wait for cdbmake to finish.  It does this by first
       writing the database to cdb.tmp and then moving cdb.tmp on top of cdb.  If cdb.tmp already exists, it is destroyed.  The  directories  con-
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       cdbmake always makes sure that cdb.tmp is safely written to disk before it replaces cdb.  If the input is in a bad format or if cdbmake has
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   RECORD FORMAT
       Records are indexed by keys.  A key is a string.  cdb is structured so that another program, starting from a key, can quickly find the rel-
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       key and data may contain any characters, including colons, dashes, newlines, and nulls.

       Keys and data do not have to fit into memory.  A database cannot exceed 4 gigabytes.

       cdb is portable across machines.

SEE ALSO

       cdbdump(1), cdbget(1), cdbstats(1)

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