ls reports input/output error - strange file

[Mertens, Bram]

> On 20/11/2007, Dr Alan J Bartlett <stxsl_ajb at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 


Mazda Motor Logistics Europe NV, Blaasveldstraat 162, B-2830 Willebroek
VAT BE 406.024.281, RPR Mechelen, ING  310-0092504-52, IBAN : BE64 3100 0925 0452, SWIFT : BBRUBEBB

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> > > From: mertensb at mazdaeur.com
> > > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:39:34 +0100
> > > To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> > > Subject: ls reports input/output error - strange file
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > A colleague of mine tried to ungzip a file but encountered an
error
> > > becuase there wasn't enough disk space available.
> > >
> > > A directory listing now reports:
> > > $ ll |grep 11.18-09-2007
> > > ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Mazda Motor Logistics Europe NV, Blaasveldstraat 162, B-2830
Willebroek
> > > VAT BE 406.024.281, RPR Mechelen, ING  310-0092504-52, IBAN : BE64
3100 0925 0452, SWIFT : BBRUBEBB
> > >
> > > ---------  ? ?    ?           ?            ?
> > > mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar
> > > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 19745998 Sep 18 16:50
> > > mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar.gz
> > >
> > > When running ls on the "unzipped" file I get:
> > > $ ll mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar
> > > ls: mappsacc.mle.mazdaeur.com-access_log.11.18-09-2007.tar:
Input/output
> > > error
> > >
> > > Any idea what happened here?  And how to remove this strange file?
> > >
[reformatted to make it more legible]
> > Bram,
> >
> > To remove it, you'll need to know exactly what its name is. I guess
there are some non-ASCII characters in its name.
> >
> > Try /bin/ls | cat -vet and see what's there. Then catch the output
of /bin/ls in foo_file, edit foo_file so that it contains an
entry/entries for what you don't want in that directory, surrounded by
quotation marks ("), one per line. Next rm $(cat foo_file).
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > Alan.
> >
>
> Alternatively, try "rm -i "*Willebroek*"
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta

Thanks for the suggestions.

In the end I choose for another approach though, I renamed the directory
containing these files.  Then moved all the "good" files to a new
directory and
removed the entire directory containing the reference to this file.

I'd still like to know what happened here.

Kind regards

Bram

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