Problems removing files with semicolons in the filename
There are some 40 files created by accident with filenames with semicolons, as well as other non-printable characters. I can not find a correct way to delete them. This is what I tried:
If even ls can't list them all by itself with no filenames given, that means the raw names being given by readdir are wrong... This does suggest disk corruption unfortunately.
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:
and I got those inodes:
I hoped I could use find with -inod, but it did not work:
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?
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some more info, I debugged my code and printed dirent :
So, I see that name contains several \0 zeroes. Is there any way to remove thises files?
Strings in C stop at the very first \0, everything after it you can ignore. Your debugger prints the whole array regardless, ignorant of what its contents represent. Filenames cannot contain \0 unless you've got an egregious filesystem bug, anyway.
I wonder if the filename is somehow being mangled when being passed between program to program. I wonder if the name were fed direct from di->d_name to unlink(), whether it would take.
If you try this, try it with extreme caution! I suggest as a start, this to avoid non-semicolon filenames:
Last edited by Corona688; 09-04-2013 at 03:59 PM..
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