There are so many people to thank. Sorry, I can't list them all. Majority of the people say to use: rm -i * You will be interactivlely prompted for each files to be deleted. It works wonderfully. Sorry, it is such as obvious answer that slip my head. Others suggested to use list and remove the inode: ls -il | more find ./ -inum <inodenumber> -prune -exec rm -i {} \; This works as well. Be sure to include -i for interactive. It listed out some files in other directories with the same inode number. Someone suggested to do: ls -li then clear those inodes by "clri" clri Sorry, I didn't try this one. Other suggestions: emacs in dired mode (ESC-x dired) ls | od -xc unlink (not sure what to unlink if it does not recognize the file) Eric Paul emailed me a Perl script that I did not try yet. Other failed: rm ./"^V^D" rm: ./^V^D non-existent rm -- "^V^D" rm: ^V^D non-existent Other than that, I am still having problem removing the first file. Many thanks, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: "Daniel Lee" <daniel_lee@asia.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 23:20:04 +0800 To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Remove files > Folks, > > I would like to know how to remove some strange files: > > #ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Jul 24 1998 ^V^D > -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Jul 24 1998 ^V{^CM-2M-<^B{ > M-^GM-^@{M-^GM-^@M-@^RM-vM-KM-u^K@^AM-PM-`{M-^GM-^@M-%@s > > #ls > etc > {{{ > @{@s > > Thanks, > Daniel -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.mail.comReceived on Fri Jun 1 21:28:55 2001
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