Re: can't remove "directories"

2000-07-04 Thread David Karlin
Hello, On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:32:32PM +0200, Albrecht Frank wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > [...] > > yet. How do I remove the remaining directory with the name "??\?(" ? > [...] > > -- > > Andrew > > > Try it with `find . -name ?\* -exec rm -rf {} \;` > But first of all, make copy of your home

Re: can't remove "directories"

2000-07-04 Thread Albrecht Frank
Pollywog wrote: [...] > yet. How do I remove the remaining directory with the name "??\?(" ? [...] > -- > Andrew Try it with `find . -name ?\* -exec rm -rf {} \;` But first of all, make copy of your home directory to /tmp and test it! Greetings Albrecht

Re: can't remove "directories"

2000-07-03 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Jul-2000 01:06:32 Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:51:40AM -, Pollywog wrote: >> There is one of these directories remaining, but its name depends >> on >> how I try to list the contents of my home directory. In Star >> Office, >> it looks like a zero, the typ

Re: can't remove "directories"

2000-07-03 Thread Joe \"piman\" Wreschnig
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:51:40AM -, Pollywog wrote: > There is one of these directories remaining, but its name depends on > how I try to list the contents of my home directory. In Star Office, > it looks like a zero, the type with a slash through it, but when I > use 'ls -la' it looks like

Re: can't remove "directories"

2000-07-03 Thread Chris Gray
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:51:40AM +, Pollywog wrote: > There is one of these directories remaining, but its name depends on > how I try to list the contents of my home directory. In Star Office, > it looks like a zero, the type with a slash through it, but when I > use 'ls -la' it looks like

RE: can't remove "directories"

2000-07-03 Thread Pollywog
There is one of these directories remaining, but its name depends on how I try to list the contents of my home directory. In Star Office, it looks like a zero, the type with a slash through it, but when I use 'ls -la' it looks like ??\?( Can I delete it using its inode? I don't recall how to do

can't remove "directories"

2000-07-03 Thread Pollywog
I installed the Opera browser and it put some weird looking directories in my user directory, and (yes I know I was stupid for doing this) I tried removing them with rm -rf ??* (in my user directory) The short story is I messed up my system but I don't know how badly yet. How do I remove the rema