SUMMARY: Non-printable characters in directory name

From: <jon.ingason_at_equant.com>
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 01:35:58 EST
Thank you ALL for very good respond!

MY PROBLEM:

d---------   2 owner   group        512 Oct 29 15:00 directory\012

How do I remove this directory?

There are two problems here, one the directory has no permission,
two the directory name has the none-printable character \012.

SOLUTION:

First I need to set the permission right and then I can remove
the directory. What I did with success was following:

$ chmod 777 directory*
$ rm -ri directory*
rm examine files in directory directory
 (yes/no)? yes
rm: remove directory
: (yes/no)? yes
$

This is the solution I used. There where some other suggestions
which I could not test (had just one directory), like

$ rmdir -i directory*

etc...

THANKS TO:

Sarah Eckhause (this solution)
Alberto Lopez
Lars Hecking
Rafael Angarita
Casper Dik
Dave Floyd
Chris L. Anderson
John E Riddoch
Martin Hepworth
Ed Rolison
Frank Velazquez
...

and many more ...

Regards

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Received on Wed Oct 30 01:41:02 2002

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