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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:16:38 -0500
From:      "John Bolster" <j.bol@gte.net>
To:        "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "Norbert Koch" <nk@LF.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: how to delete corrupt file
Message-ID:  <NEBBKLANMLAKACFKNODOEELNCLAA.j.bol@gte.net>
In-Reply-To: <E14GdCX-000Kqi-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>

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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
> 

cat shows nothing, less shows the same error, view shows an empty file.

John


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