How to kill a dir?

[WipeOut]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:10, WipeOut wrote:
>  
>
>>Quillen, Channon wrote:
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>>    
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>>>Try placing the directory name in quotes "" or single quotes ''
>>>Eg. rm -fr "test"
>>>
>>>-Channon
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Nope, that didn't help..
>>
>>Thanks for trying..
>>    
>>
>
>    OK, time to get out the power tools. (I can't believe no one's
>thrown this in already...)
>
>    ls -lai  <----notice that the 'i' is included. Sample:
>
>  Inum:   Perms                             Size, etc...
> 968014 -rw-rw-r--    1 brian    brian     3885999 Dec 24 15:12 ximian-artwork-0.2.26-1.i386.rpm
> 968013 -rw-rw-r--    1 brian    brian      327381 Dec 24 15:11 xmms-status-plugin-1.0-2.i386.rpm
> 968015 -rw-rw-r--    1 brian    brian      320725 Dec 24 15:12 xscorch-0.1.16-0.1pre2.i386.rpm
> 968016 -rw-rw-r--    1 brian    brian      441488 Dec 24 15:12 zsnes-1.36-3.i386.rpm
>
>    Find the directory/file by it's inode number, then
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>    find . -inum 968016 -exec rm {} \;
>
>    If it's a directory, (and it's empty) whatever 'find' finds it'll
>run the command on, such as removing the 'znes' rpm above.  As far as I
>know, this'll work on any file or directory, unless the attributes are
>changed (like in the previous posts, using chattr) or unless the thing's
>a directory that isn't empty.
>
>    Enjoy!
>
>  
>
The result.. :)

[root at dev02 i386]# ls -lai
ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
total 16
 799767 drwxrwsr-x    3 root     root         4096 Jan  5 18:04 .
1665003 drwxrwsr-x    3 root     root         4096 Nov 12 07:03 ..
 799769 drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         8192 Jan  4 19:44 test
[root at dev02 i386]# find . -inum 799769 -exec rm {} \;
rm: cannot remove `./test': Is a directory
find: ./??*?: No such file or directory

No joy..

Looks like I have found a weird one huh!!..