Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:04:03PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> westk[@]goshen.acu.edu]:/TERASTATIONBACKUP/RSYNC-BACKUP/home/web/html/mriggs/Archive/Spring
> 2008/445:> stat Tentative\ Schedule\ \?��\ Math\ 445.pdf
>   File: `Tentative Schedule ?\307\364 Math 445.pdf'

Looks like latin1 / UTF-8 issue.  New Debian/Windows are in UTF-8 while
old Debian/Windows for most westerners are latin1 variants.

> westk[@]goshen.acu.edu]:/TERASTATIONBACKUP/RSYNC-BACKUP/home/web/html/mriggs/Archive/Spring
> 2008/445:> find . -inum 59670414 -exec rm -i {} \;
> rm: remove regular file `./Tentative Schedule ?\307\364 Math 445.pdf'? y
> rm: cannot remove `./Tentative Schedule ?\307\364 Math 445.pdf': No such
> file or directory

I thought using inode number is the way too .... wait I see some googled
pages use:

$ find . -inum 59670414 -exec rm -i '{}' \;

I think use of single qotes here may be what is needed. Then I will also
try different encodings:

$ LC_ALL=C           LANG=$LC_ALL find . -inum 59670414 -exec rm -i '{}' \;
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=$LC_ALL find . -inum 59670414 -exec rm -i '{}' \;
$ LC_ALL=en_US       LANG=$LC_ALL find . -inum 59670414 -exec rm -i '{}' \;

Good luck.

Osamu