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From: conger@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Edward Conger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The directory with no name??
Message-ID: <10780002@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 90 19:33:15 GMT
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/ hpcupt1:comp.unix.wizards / tim@ranier.Data-IO.COM (Tim Rosmus) /  3:20 pm  Apr 10, 1990 /
>>Any one got any ideas on how to cleanly remove this file/directory
>>short of "newfs"?   It was created by using Norton Commander from
>>a PC via PC-NFS.  Doing a "ls -lR" just recursively lists itself
>>until a core dump finally occurs.  DOS (under PC-NFS) doesn't see
>>the file at all.

I may be missing something, but will a "/bin/rm -i *" where you answer
'y' only to the 'nameless' file do the trick for you?


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-Ed.
conger@hpda.hp.com
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