topic Re: Strange unremoveable folder in Operating System - HP-UX

Strange unremoveable folder

yyghp — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:54:58 GMT

I got a strange folder:

drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 96 Oct 1 14:56 ewfewfwfwefwe

I can't remove it or check things inside:

# rm -R ewfewfwfwefwe
rm: ewfewfwfwefwe non-existent
# cd ewfewfwfwefwe
sh: ewfewfwfwefwe: not found.

What can i do now ?
Thanks!

Re: Strange unremoveable folder

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:56:48 GMT

Hi,

This may have some control-characters that are not visible. I would do something like this.

#mkdir junk
#ll -d *ewf*
(make sure this directory appears)
#mv *ewf* junk
#rm -rf junk

-Sri

Re: Strange unremoveable folder

RAC_1 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:59:33 GMT

ll -d *ewf*|vis

What it gives?

Anil

Re: Strange unremoveable folder

Sundar_7 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:05:08 GMT

# ls -ld *ewfe* | cat -v

I would guess you have some control characters prefixed/suffixed to the directoy name.

Re: Strange unremoveable folder

yyghp — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:10:27 GMT

Thanks Sridhar Bhaskarla !
Yours works !

Hi RAC, here's what i got:

# ll -d *ewf*|vis
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 96 Oct 1 14:56 oracle\b\b\b\b\b\bewfewfwfwefwe