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To: Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Subject: Re: how to delete corrupt file
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:35:17 GMT
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> "John Bolster" <j.bol@gte.net> writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > Can anyone tell me how to delete this file- it won't seem to go away:
> > 
> >==>rm -r makefile.os2
> > rm: makefile.os2: Bad file descriptor
> 
> Huh? Never seen this. Does it help to force (-f) the rm command? BTW,
> you don't need -r, it's no directory.

Hard to imagine how rm would return this...
Can you cat/less/view ... the file without error ?

Cliff




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