Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:54:15PM +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote:
On 2006-11-15 @ 11:20:46 (week 46) Ralph Katz wrote:

How about:

# rm -f 1141914051.*

No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar
mysterious situation.

Ah, hadn't tried that yet. Too bad it didn't work.

$ rm -i 1141914051.*
rm: cannot lstat
`1141914051.M484859P8695V0000000000000309Ip0007553_0.draupnir,S=3707:2,S':
No such file or directory

See if find sees the file, e.g.,

find -name 11419\*

and if it does, then something like

find -name 11419\* -exec rm {} \;

or
find -name 11419\* -exec mv {} somename \;

if you'd like to have a look at it.

There might be a problem with special characters in the name getting
fouled up when the shell interprets it. If so, it might be possible to
use rm if you escape those characters.

Ken

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Ken Irving, fnkci@xxxxxxx


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