[lug] getting rid of bad filenames?

[Riggs, Rob]

I'd try 'find -inum ... -exec rm -f {} \;' instead to see if that works. I
think you may have a problem with xargs reading the trashed filename from
the pipe. It may be trying to parse the data in some manner.

Another option is to use a tool like midnight commander to delete the file.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate at natetech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:07 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] getting rid of bad filenames?


Trying this doesn't seem to work...

ls -i to get an inode of a file with a really trashed filename
find -inum <whatever from above> | xargs rm

Is this a braindead way to do this?

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