Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

[Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com>]

On May 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

> 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com>:
> > Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't  
> > tend to
> > have to log on to very often.  I checked the bad directory and get  
> > this:
> >
> > [hal@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX
> > total 0
> > ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? reportX/2009-raw?@?
>
> <snip/>
>
> > [hal@scarecrow:threshNet]$ rm reportX/*
> > rm: cannot lstat `reportX/2009-raw\237@\037': No such file or  
> > directory
>
> I guess it will not work because "rm" doesn't work but you could try
> "find . -type f -delete". Another command to try is "unlink".

Thanks for the ideas.  Tried both, here's the output for find:

[hal@scarecrow:ReportX]$ find . -type f -delete
find: ./2009-raw?@: No such file or directory

Got a similar message for unlink.  Basically everything treats it as  
no file there.



Hal