Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:55:39 -0400 From: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: 'Rus Foster' <rghf@fsck.me.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... Message-ID: <005801c272d0$fab6c040$1500a8c0@dogbert> In-Reply-To: <20021013151607.G36558-100000@freebsd.rf0.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what happens... -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 64924 Sep 2 15:24 rm " " rm: remove write-protected file ` '? y rm: cannot unlink ` ': Operation not permitted Any other ideas? --Brian -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Rus Foster Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:17 AM To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Brian McCann wrote: > I've got an interesting question for you all. I've got a file who's > name is " "...3 blank spaces. It shows up when I do an ls -la, and I > can get it's inode # (it's in RedHat...a box I'm going to convert to > FreeBSD real soon)...does anyone know how to remove a file based off > of an inode #? > > --Brian McCann Have you tried rm " " ? I've just tried it on my box bash-2.05# touch " " bash-2.05# ls -ld " " -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 13 13:13 bash-2.05# rm " " bash-2.05# ls -ld " " ls: : No such file or directory Rus -- http://www.fsck.me.uk - My blog http://shells.fsck.me.uk - Hosting how you want it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?005801c272d0$fab6c040$1500a8c0>