Hi,
I had a directory which contained the following:
ls showed me simple this: "?" with 0 bytes ls -axl showed me nothing
So I tried to delete the directory but could not succeed with "rm -R" because the "directory is not empty". I changed to the directory and tried to delete everything inside with "rm *" but also did not succeed. It seemed that the file had no name. So than I did a mistake and wanted to delete the file with no name with the operation:
rm -R //
This was a big mistake which I noticed soon enough (some files in /bin were deleted). I could repair the damage but what I want to know is what exactly is
rm -R //
deleting. It seems that it is deleting everything?
It is, you're recursively deleting / - multiple '/' are treated as one; try
cd //usr//bin
To delete the rogue file try
rm -i *
in the directory the file is in, answering 'n' for all other files.
If that fails, try copying everything you need in the directory it is in to somewhere else then recursively deleting the directory
rm -rf /path/to/dir/with/rogue/file
HTH
Mark
Thanx in advance
Oliver
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