Baurjan Ismagulov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tar has created a file ending with a dot, and now I can't delete
> it (I've tried rm, del in cmd, explorer, far, unlink call with
> and without -mno-cygwin). What would you suggest before I search
> an 8-GB volume for the directory entry with a disk editor? I
> would appreciate any help (pointers to NTFS directory structure
> description also welcome). Scandisk didn't report any problems.
A common way in Unix to delete files with strange names is by
using the inode number:
ls -1ib DIR # find inode number NUM
find DIR -xdev -inum NUM -exec rm {} \; # remove the file
but, alas, I don't think that works either.
But I wonder how you created this file in the first place. It
seems to me that trailing dots are removed. Here is what I get
when I extract a tar file containing files with trailing dots.
(The tar file was created on Solaris.):
$ tar xvf bad.tar
foo/
foo/bar0
foo/bar1.
foo/bar2..
foo/bar3...
foo/bar4....
foo/bar5.....
$ ls -1 foo
bar0
bar1
bar2
bar3
bar4
bar5
The dots are gone.
Peter
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