Cannot Delete File

[Amit Dixit_2]

Hi,
I am having a file which when I do a ll appears in the directory listing, when I try to delete it system gives error message

"No such file or directory"

Permission on the file is rw-r-r and I cannot change permission as well error message "Cant Access".

What could be the issue ?

Thanks,
Amit.

[Warren_9]

hi,

i think you filename may contains some control character, try to use "rm -i *filename*" to remove the file.

[Rita C Workman]

Get the inode with ll -i and then do as Warren suggest. Or maybe would rm "file name in quotes" work for ya.

Rgrds,
Rita

[morganelan]

May be there are some control characters attached to the file name.

# echo * | cat -v

Look for any control characters displayed

# rm -rf *application*

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

ll with -b option can also be used to display files with special characters. Once you find there are special characters in the file remove it using rm with -i option as you use wild characters in the arguments.

#ll -b

#rm -i *filename or filename*

(Put * depending upon the location of control character in the file)

HTH,
Devender

[vinod_25]

hi Amit

As others say this is due to a special character incorporated in your file...

One more trick that I use is

rm (filename)

Where is the escape key
Hit the escape key twice and that will auto complete the command and will automatically find the name with hidden/non ascii characters and complete the word.

cheers!!!

Vinod

[Matthew_50]

Get the directory i-node number
1. #ll -i directoryname|awk '{print $1}'

Verify i-node number via find
2. #find $PWD -inum XXXXXXX -exec ll {} \;

If output match the directory name, then
3. #find $PWD -inum XXXXXXX -exec rm -rf {} \;

[Mark Grant]

If you're really bored and need yet another approach

ls > somefile

edit "somefile" to remove everything except the file you want to remove and insert an "rm " in front of the file name. Then save it.

sh somefile

I like to do it that way sometimes just to see how odd the filename really is.

[Mark Grant]

Oops, didn't see how old this one was.

[Cem Tugrul]

Amit,

it depends on some control charecters
i have also many end-users and many times
they use turkish characters while creating
files although i warn them so when i want to
reduce FS about their home dir i face same
problems...the solution i prefer;

rm -i filename

And also i sometimes apply as Mark's solution

Good Luck,