Open or Remove the file with bad name

[Leah Chow]

Hello,

I have a bunch of files created by users with 3rd party software, the file names are all look like c:\01042006155142bs. Could someone tell me how to open these files, or how to delete these files?

My server is HPUX 11i, thanks a lot for your help.

Leah

[DCE · Accepted solution]

Leah,

Try using quotes around the name

cat "c:\01042006155142bs"

rm "c:\01042006155142bs"

Dave

[Leah Chow]

thanks a lot, you solved my problem less than 1 minute.

Leah

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Leah:

A general variation of this problem is to handle a file with special, non-printing characters as well as embedded spaces or special characters. Here's one way to search-and-destroy those:

# cd filesystem
# find . -xdev name "*bad*" -exec ls -li {} \;

(or):

# ls -ilb . #...in place of the above 'find'

Either the 'find' or the 'ls' alone will expose the inode number of the file in question. Now use it to delete the file, like this:

# find . -inum 152 -xdev -exec rm -i {} \;

REMEMBER that an inode number is only unique WITHIN a filesystem! Using an interactive 'rm' is always a safety net. The '-xdev' option of 'find' also insures that you do NOT cross mountpoints (filesystems).

Regards!

...JRF...

[Leah Chow]

i tried this:
find . -xdev name "*gltest*" -exec ls -li {} \

and i got this error:

find: missing conjunction


could you help me

Thanks again
Leah

[Leah Chow]

Hello JRF,

i tried this:
find . -xdev name "*gltest*" -exec ls -li {} \

and i got this error:

find: missing conjunction


could you tell me what's wrong?

Thanks again
Leah

[Pete Randall]

Leah,

I think that is because you need a minus sign in front of the "name"

find . -xdev -name "*gltest*" -exec ls -li {} \


Pete

[Leah Chow]

Thank you very much pete, it works.

Leah

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Leah:

My apologies, I dropped the "-". You should use:

# find . -xdev -name "*bad*" -exec ls -li {} \;

See the manpages for 'find(1)' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Cem Tugrul]

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=50871

Good luck,

[Cem Tugrul]

also would be nice to visit the link;

http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/troubleshooting/os/unix/1231/

Good Luck,

[Leah Chow]

Thank you all for your help, the answers are really helpful, the problem has been solved.

Leah

[Cem Tugrul]

thank's for your points
:-((