Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 21:05:12 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Walter <walterk1@earthlink.net> Cc: f-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name Message-ID: <20040410010512.GB1394@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <407727FE.7040102@earthlink.net> References: <405640BE.9000102@earthlink.net> <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A27C@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20040315235943.GA55958@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <40564606.3020504@earthlink.net> <20040316035734.GC3419@moo.holy.cow> <20040316041933.GA4098@moo.holy.cow> <40571A35.7040702@earthlink.net> <20040320012555.GA3514@moo.holy.cow> <407727FE.7040102@earthlink.net>
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in message <407727FE.7040102@earthlink.net>, wrote Walter thusly... > > It looks like another directory structure has appeared in the ftp > directory that Lynx does not "see" and that > find . -inum <inode> -delete > does not delete. It does have a dot as the first character, with > some other non-printing characters, but no "/". ... > Do you still want to look at it?? If so, as I'm not overly > conversant with tar ... Wow, i didn't expect that to happen so soon. Here is the tar command pipe... tar cf - <parent of offending directory> \ | bzip2 -9 >> foul-name.tbz2 ...tar will send the output on stdout (-f -) of tarball (-c) of the parent directory of the offending directory name. Bzip2 will then compress the tar output (given on the stdout) to the fullest extent (-9) possible. Tar'ed & compressed output will then be stored in file named 'foul-named.tbz2'. If the size of foul-named.tbz2 is ~30 kB, send me this file as email attachment. Otherwise, please allow me to download it via FTP or HTTP. In all case, please keep the size less than a MB or so. - Parv --
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