[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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