topic Re: Cannot delete file in Operating System - HP-UX

Cannot delete file

GraceO — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:08:43 GMT

I have a file that I'd like to delete that has weird characters in it. The exact name is ?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^ and it exists in root. The owner is root and the group is sys. I don't know how it got there or if something is corrupted. Can someone help?

Re: Cannot delete file

GraceO — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:14:05 GMT

One more thing, the file does not appear when doing an ll command, but does with an ll | more.

Re: Cannot delete file

Steven Schweda — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:27:34 GMT

You might try something like "rm -i *", and
get ready to say "n" repeatedly. It's that,
or quote the weird name characters
appropriately.

Normally, I'd also suggest CTRL/C after you
get the thing deleted using "rm -i *", but
this is HP-UX, so it's always a mystery to
me which key does an interrupt. ("stty -a"
says, of course.)

(I assume that it's the file's _name_ that
has weird characters in it, not the file.)

Re: Cannot delete file

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:19:55 GMT

Hi,

# ls -i

note the i-node number of the file

# find . -inum xxx -xdev -exec mv {}; /tmp/GraceO.ymp

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Cannot delete file

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:23:55 GMT

hi,

if you have access through a graphics console or ftp software, you can try to rename it a more readable name and perform further analysis on the file characteristics.

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: Cannot delete file

Dennis Handly — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:33:45 GMT

This is a file with DEL chars.

If you use ll -b, you will see them as escapes. With my stty settings of ^H for erase, that is a regular char for me:
$ touch ^?
$ ll -b ^?
-rw-rw-r-- 0 Apr 3 23:31 \177

Re: Cannot delete file

Jollyjet — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:45:39 GMT

HI,

Rename the file and check the attributes and delete the file if it not works try to boot it in a single user mode and delete the file.

Re: Cannot delete file

SANTOSH S. MHASKAR — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:13:18 GMT

Hi,

Note the inode of file by using command
ls -li

then use following to delete the file

# rm `ls -li|awk '$1 == {print $10}'`

Thats all

Otherwise use Steven's method.

Re: Cannot delete file

GraceO — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:01:45 GMT

Wow! So many options. I'll read carefully through them all and see which to try first.

Thanks everyone!