Can't Remove Directory?
Longman, Bill
longman at sharplabs.com
Tue Oct 5 10:57:29 MDT 2004
> This is a strange one.
>
> I have a directory on my system named "43480".
>
> The directory was created by a webapp I wrote.
>
> I can issue the 'ls' command and the directory shows:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 4 23:08 43480
>
> But if I try 'cd 43480' or 'rmdir 43480' I get "no such file
> or directory".
>
> Did something get corrupt? This is an ext3 filesystem.
>
> Thanks,
Drew, use "ls -q" and dollars to donuts you'll see a special character in
the filename. You can also use "find . -ls" in the above directory and it
will show you the filename.
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