use rm -fR dirName instead of -fr
Wade
WipeOut wrote:
Brian Fahrlander wrote:
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:10, WipeOut wrote:
Quillen, Channon wrote:
Try placing the directory name in quotes "" or single quotes '' Eg. rm -fr "test"
-Channon
Nope, that didn't help..
Thanks for trying..
OK, time to get out the power tools. (I can't believe no one's thrown this in already...)
ls -lai <----notice that the 'i' is included. Sample:
Inum: Perms Size, etc...
968014 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 3885999 Dec 24 15:12 ximian-artwork-0.2.26-1.i386.rpm
968013 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 327381 Dec 24 15:11 xmms-status-plugin-1.0-2.i386.rpm
968015 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 320725 Dec 24 15:12 xscorch-0.1.16-0.1pre2.i386.rpm
968016 -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 441488 Dec 24 15:12 zsnes-1.36-3.i386.rpm
Find the directory/file by it's inode number, then
find . -inum 968016 -exec rm {} \;
If it's a directory, (and it's empty) whatever 'find' finds it'll run the command on, such as removing the 'znes' rpm above. As far as I know, this'll work on any file or directory, unless the attributes are changed (like in the previous posts, using chattr) or unless the thing's a directory that isn't empty.
Enjoy!
The result.. :)
[root@dev02 i386]# ls -lai ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character total 16 799767 drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 5 18:04 . 1665003 drwxrwsr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 07:03 .. 799769 drwxrwsr-x 2 root root 8192 Jan 4 19:44 test [root@dev02 i386]# find . -inum 799769 -exec rm {} \; rm: cannot remove `./test': Is a directory find: ./??*?: No such file or directory
No joy..
Looks like I have found a weird one huh!!..
