Re: How to kill a dir?

Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:

Perhaps you can delete it using the inode number.  Try this:
ls -i
you should get something line this
4529682 file1  4529681 test
(the numbers you get will be different).
then do this:
find . -inum 4529681 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Still no luck..

[root@dev02 i386]# ls -i
ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
799769 test
[root@dev02 i386]# find . -inum 799769 -exec rm -rf {} \;
rm: cannot remove directory `./test': Directory not empty
find: ./??*?: No such file or directory
[root@dev02 i386]# ls
ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
test

Guess I will just have to abandon that directory tree until I rebuild the system one day..