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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Undeletable file Post 303036990 by MadeInGermany on Friday 19th of July 2019 03:18:25 PM

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IMHO a glob match returns even unprintable characters.
So the last proposal does not improve anything.

And the clri command (didn't know it yet), will cause extra harm.
It is useless to clear the inode of the file, because an inode contains the data block structure and all meta information BUT THE FILENAME.
The filename and the pointer to the inode is stored in the directory.
The directory is another inode. To have an effect you must clear the directory inode.
I expect less damage with

Code:

unlink <directory>

if supported by the OS. If successful, you need a full file system check, in order to collect the dangling file inode and its data blocks.
I successfully did that a couple of times on a non-journaling UFS in single-user mode (no desktop, no other processes running).

I would go for a disk editor. Find the offending name, compare the shown bytes with the characters from the ls command, change one byte, save, compare again, ...

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term::send(n)							 Terminal control						     term::send(n)

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NAME

       term::send - General output to terminals

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require term::send  ?0.1?

       ::term::send::wrch chan str

       ::term::send::wr str

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DESCRIPTION

       This  package provides the most primitive commands for sending characters to a terminal. They are in essence convenient wrappers around the
       builtin command puts.

       ::term::send::wrch chan str
	      Send the text str to the channel specified by the handle chan.  In contrast to the builtin command puts this command does not termi-
	      nate  the  string  with a line terminator. It also forces an  flush of Tcl internal and OS buffers to ensure that the characters are
	      processed immediately.

       ::term::send::wr str
	      This convenience command is like ::term::send::wrch, except that the destination channel is fixed to stdout.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category term	of
       the  Tcllib  SF	Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       character output, control, terminal

CATEGORY

       Terminal control

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

term									0.1							     term::send(n)