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Re: can't remove "directories"



On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:51:40AM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> There is one of these directories remaining, but its name depends on
> how I try to list the contents of my home directory.  In Star Office,
> it looks like a zero, the type with a slash through it, but when I
> use 'ls -la' it looks like ??\?(
> 
> Can I delete it using its inode?  I don't recall how to do that, but
> I can probably look it up if someone will tell me if that is the way
> to do it.

The slow but working way would be to do a 'rm -ri *'.  I hope you
haven't got a lot of files.

Cheers,
Chris

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