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unfortunatley the script has been changed and I am not creating any more of the files in question but would like to clean up bad files.
just so you can see what I was doing although this may not help now.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "Please enter the date for CD info wanted: \c"
read rrd_date
echo "Please enter CEC CEM or CEP: \c"
read file_name
sleep 2
# Create the output file with CEC CEP or CEM information
echo "Creating $file_name file"
cd /opt/cdunix/work/vcndm
sleep 2
grep $file_name S2*$rrd_date.* >~/rrd$rrd_date$file_name S20090722.045
echo "output rrd$rrd_date$file_name file created"
sleep 2
FILE=~/rrd$rrd_date$file_name
echo $FILE
FS="|"
while read line
do
# store field 1
F1=$(echo $line | cut -d$FS -f1)
echo "$F1" > cdrrdout
# store field 2
F2=$(echo $line | cut -d$FS -f2)
echo "$F2" > cdrrdout
# store field 18
F18=$(echo $line | cut -d$FS -f18)
echo "$F18" > cdrrdout
# store field 19
F19=$(echo $line | cut -d$FS -f19)
echo "$F19" > cdrrdout$rrd_date$file_name
echo "cdrrdout file $rrd_date$file_name has been created"
done < $FILE
As I am sure you now realise this shows trailing characters which are not usual in filenames but are allowed in unix. There are no identical inode numbers - which would have told us to run fsck immediately (as was correctly advised in an earlier post).
In this context where we know the name of every file in the directory we don't need to go out of our way to generate an exact match to the filename in order to remove or rename the file.
If for example you need to remove the file called:
Quote:
rrd15CC\033[DEC
There are 5 characters after the visible string "rrd15CC".
Escape, left square bracket, dee, eee, cee .
Code:
rm -i rrd15CC?????
Only delete the file if you are sure !
With some of your wonky filenames we could get multiple matches on a "rm -i filename??" command, though in this context you may wish to choose to remove each match (your decision).
BTW: If you are wondering how I translated "\033" into an Escape character, see "man ascii".
Last edited by methyl; 07-25-2009 at 05:59 PM..
Reason: BTW & and editing problem
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