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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