ls reports input/output error - strange file

[Dr Alan J Bartlett]

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.

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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?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Bram
> 
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