[ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix

[Jerry Walsh]

It looks to me like a corrupt filesystem, run fsck
also try rm -i * and delete only the troublesome files.

You can also try removing the file by its inode, but i'd save
that as a last resort.

Jerry.

At 04:51 23/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Its the / directory :-)
>
>-Roy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Higgins [mailto:chris.higgins at horizon.ie]
>Sent: 23 May 2001 09:26
>To: Roy White
>Cc: Irish Linux Users' Group
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix
>
>
> > Seeing as how we are on this subject here's one for ya,
>
>
>Looks like control characters or garbage in the filename...
>
>You could move everything else out of the directory they are in
>and then rm -rf it...
>
>
> >
> > how do I delete the following files...
> > =========================================================
> > #ls -las | more
> > total 869
> >    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:19  unexpected
> >
> >               ^
> >
> > % Invalid input detected at
> >    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:14  unexpected
> >
> >              ^
> >
> > % Invalid input detected at
> >    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:15  unexpected
> >
> >             ^
> >
> > % Invalid input detected at
> >    0 -rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Apr 12 08:16  unexpected
> >
> >  ^
> >
> > % Invalid input detected at
> > ==========================================================
> >
> > ? any help much appreciated, and how would you go about creating them
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >       Roy
> >
> > p.s. this is on Solaris 5.6
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colm Buckley [mailto:colm at tuatha.org]
> > Sent: 23 May 2001 09:35
> > To: Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin); Irish Linux Users' Group
> > Subject: Re: [ILUG] Deleting a file with a "--" prefix
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 23 May 2001 09:30, you wrote:
> > > Quote it ?
> >
> > Proinnsias, I'm ashamed of you.
> >
> > Quote parsing is performed by the *shell*, and option parsing is
> > performed by the *command*.  Quoting the name won't make any
> > difference to what 'rm' sees.
> >
> > > rm "--preserve-permissions"
> > > should do it
> >
> > It would be a good idea if people actually *tried* their solutions
> > before passing them on as advice...
> >
> >            Colm
> >
> > --
> > Colm Buckley @ NewWorld Commerce
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> > Personal: +353 87 2469146 / colm at tuatha.org / http://www.tuatha.org/~colm/
> > You sound reasonable... Time to up my medication.
> >
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