RE: ls reports input/output error - strange file

On 20/11/2007, Dr Alan J Bartlett <stxsl_ajb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Mazda Motor Logistics Europe NV, Blaasveldstraat 162, B-2830 Willebroek
VAT BE 406.024.281, RPR Mechelen, ING 310-0092504-52, IBAN : BE64 3100 0925 0452, SWIFT : BBRUBEBB

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From: mertensb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:39:34 +0100
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: ls reports input/output error - strange file

Hi,

A colleague of mine tried to ungzip a file but encountered an
error
becuase there wasn't enough disk space available.

A directory listing now reports:
$ ll |grep 11.18-09-2007
?


Mazda Motor Logistics Europe NV, Blaasveldstraat 162, B-2830
Willebroek
VAT BE 406.024.281, RPR Mechelen, ING 310-0092504-52, IBAN : BE64
3100 0925 0452, SWIFT : BBRUBEBB

--------- ? ? ? ? ?
mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19745998 Sep 18 16:50
mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar.gz

When running ls on the "unzipped" file I get:
$ ll mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar
ls: mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar:
Input/output
error

Any idea what happened here? And how to remove this strange file?

[reformatted to make it more legible]
Bram,

To remove it, you'll need to know exactly what its name is. I guess
there are some non-ASCII characters in its name.

Try /bin/ls | cat -vet and see what's there. Then catch the output
of /bin/ls in foo_file, edit foo_file so that it contains an
entry/entries for what you don't want in that directory, surrounded by
quotation marks ("), one per line. Next rm $(cat foo_file).

Hope this helps.
Alan.


Alternatively, try "rm -i "*Willebroek*"

Kind regards,

Herta

Thanks for the suggestions.

In the end I choose for another approach though, I renamed the directory
containing these files. Then moved all the "good" files to a new
directory and
removed the entire directory containing the reference to this file.

I'd still like to know what happened here.

Kind regards

Bram

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