Re: How do I remove a bad file??

["John L. Cunningham" <djohngo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:20:11PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
> 
> -????????? ? ?    ?             ?                ? Inbox.msf
> 
> I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I
> have thought of to get rid of it or write over it.
> 
> Any ideas how I can get this thing out of my life??

If there is no GUI available, this trick using find and the file's inode number will work:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/delete-remove-files-with-inode-number.html