root system filenames are seen in ascii characters

[Mangesh Khatav_1]

hi all,

filenames in root filesystem is seen in ASCII formats.all other filenames in other filesystem are been seen normally

the ls -l command output is attached .

thanks in advance

regards
Mangesh

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

file nsames itself may be like that.
check as follows.

ls -al | vis
ls -bl
ls -al | cat -v

Check if it has any unprintable chars in it or not.

[Muthukumar_5]

ls command has an option of b to show non-priting charaters.

Try as,

# ls -bl

hth.

[Arunvijai_4]

# man ls says

-b List nonprinting characters in the octal \ddd notation.

-Arun

[VIKAS AGRAWAL]

hi mahesh ,

i have checked your output & found that all files with Junk names are created on the same day , it might be possible that some one ftp some files to root directory with a diff language name.

You can try ls -lb for nonprintable charecters.

I hope there will not be much issue in this

[Mangesh Khatav_1]

Hi all


thanks for ur response.Pls tell me how shall i remove the files .the o/p of the ls -bl command shows all numeric file names.check the attachment.


regards
Mangesh

[VIKAS AGRAWAL]

Hi Mangesh ,

u can do it by rm -i *filename*

By this way it will ask for the confirmation of each file to be deleted , or use rm -i * .

Then delete the files with junk name .

It will solve your perpose .

After this close this case & assigne points .

[RAC_1]

Move then with the use of inode number.
ls -abli

note down inode number of files that you want to move.
For every inode do as follows.

find . -inum "number" -exec mv {} new_name \;

[Arunvijai_4]

Try using -i option of ls command to find out inode number,

-i For each file, list the inode number in the first column of the report. When used in multicolumn output, the number precedes the file name in each column.

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5]

Try to remove as,

ls -b | xargs rm -i

will ask your permission of yes / no to remove files in the current directory.

hth.

[Muthukumar_5]

Use like,

ls -b | xargs -p -l rm -i

It will ask prompt now :)

hth.

[Bill Hassell]

Most of the filenames with "numbers" have non-displayable characters so removing them will be difficult. rm -i works OK except in many cases you can't see the filename reported by rm. For instance, a filename is:

\221k\306

which means that ASCII character 211 (in octal) is followed by "k" then followed by ASCII character 306 (in octal). So you can remove that specific file with this:

rm -i $(echo "\221k\306")

In this case, the echo command will convert the octal numbers back into the equivalent ASCII characters and rm will remove the exact file. This is much safer.

[Kent Ostby]

Mangesh --

Do this:

ll -i

This will list the inode numbers in the first column, for example:

27 -rw-rw-r-- 1 hpcu dumps 413 Jul 22 2004 sgtoc
28 -rw-rw-r-- 1 hpcu dumps 180 Jul 22 2004 spinlock.sh
1277 -rw-rw-r-- 1 hpcu dumps 6828 Jul 14 12:22 upgradeOSonly

Then you can run the following command:

find . -inum NUMBER -exec rm {} \;

So if I wanted to remove the file "sgtoc", I'd type:

find . -inum 27 -exec rm {} \;