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Old 04-12-2007
Help I've created a dir called /
OK, I had some odd characters in my mkdir command which resulted in the following directory getting created:


drwxr-xr-x 2 fred fredgroup 512 Apr 12 16:52 /

Any ideas how I get rid of it safely?

Interestingly that's a straight cut'n'paste and there appear to be some odd characters before the /...

Thanks!
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Old 04-12-2007
Code:
rmdir '/'

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Old 04-16-2007
Hi Reborg,

Just tried this but it keeps giving me a command continuation prompt ( > )

Is there a way of deleting files/directories via the inode?


Thanks, p.
Last edited by pondlife; 04-16-2007 at 05:43 AM..
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Old 04-25-2007
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Originally Posted by pondlife
Hi Reborg,

Just tried this but it keeps giving me a command continuation prompt ( > )

Is there a way of deleting files/directories via the inode?


Thanks, p.
Yes, you should be able to remove a file using it's inode.

1. cd to the directory containing the file
2. ls -li (will provide inode numbers in the far left column)
3. find . -xdev -inum inode_number -exec rm {} \;
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Old 05-01-2007
It may not be possible if the name contains a "/". Smilie
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/fa...section-2.html

But you could try the
Code:
rm -ri .

and answer "n" to everything but the problem directory/file.
Last edited by kahuna; 05-02-2007 at 08:21 AM.. Reason: Additional thought.
 
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