Am Mo, den 05.01.2004 schrieb WipeOut um 19:09: > I have a dir that I can't seem to delete and is giving strange errors.. > > [root@dev02 i386]# ls > ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character > test > [root@dev02 i386]# rm -rf test > rm: cannot remove directory `test': Directory not empty > [root@dev02 i386]# cd test > [root@dev02 test]# ls > ls: : No such file or directory > > Anyone got any super commands for getting rid of a directory that just > will not go? > > Thanks.. > > Later.. Hm, I do not know how you produced these invalid charactes but you might try this inside the directoy where the damaged "test directory is (be sure that there is no other file or directory which matches the code: rm -rf -- *test* Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
