[NTLUG:Discuss] Remove File With Unknown Chars

Kenneth Loafman kenneth at loafman.com
Fri Aug 15 18:22:44 CDT 2008


Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Normally I can solve these problems, but I have managed to use wget and
> it created a file like so:
> 
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ken ken 85 2008-08-14 23:50 visit.gif?us1218628121
> 
> Problem is, I can't 'rm' it, can't remove the directory its in with 'rm
> -rf', and can't remove it with Nautilus.  Wildcards don't work, of
> course, and I can't see how to remove it.
> 
> Is there a disk editing tool to see what the directory entry looks like
> and fix it?

Never mind... the file was on a CIFS file system.  All I had to do was
go to the server directly and remove the dir/file with 'rm -rf'.

...Ken



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