UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Any error message?
if not, try what vino said
else probably perms issue
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Based on the error you got the first time (rm: hs_pdref_custom_dict_PG1_out_76_out non-existent) I don't think it's what vino says but it could be if the find's rm doesn't give you the same error...
lsof is not an standard tool, you'll need to install it.

Hi grial....

Hope i will not be a permision problem since when i tried to delete it . It showing that not avalaible if it is a permision problem it would some other then that....




Please let me know what to do.

Thanks in advance.
Arun kumar.

Do ls -li , find out the inode number and use find command to -exex rm -rf {}

Have you tried kapilraj recomendation?
For eaxample:
ls -i
6336 hs_pdref_custom_dict_PG1_out_76_out 9456 hs_pdref_custom_dict_PG1_out_75_out . . . . .

find . -inum 6336 -exec rm {} \;

Thanks to all....

Please let me know why it has been problem what is it doing with the inode ... Is that file inode is refered some where by other file ... Please let me know the concept behind this that will be gratefull to me ..

Thanks in advance..
Arun Kumar

u can simply do this

rename the file you're trying to delete. but place the newnamed file in another directory. /tmp for instance. then remove it.

mv (thefile u want to delete) (/another/directory/newname)

then

rm -rf (the newname you just gave the file)


i have ran into something similar.

The inode is a thing given to you by the filesystem, essentially a unique number that identifies it, like how processes have process id's. Each filesystem has it's own seperate inodes, which is why hard-links can't work between different filesystems -- the inode numbers could overlap. By giving find the inode instead of the name you can tell it which file to find without having to wrestle with unprintable names.