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

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Hal Vaughan wrote:
>
> 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.
>

How about "mc"?

-- 
Kent