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From: ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Removing garbage files
Message-ID: <610@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 2 Jun 90 21:00:53 GMT
References: <156@TWG.UUCP>
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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From article <156@TWG.UUCP>, by bill@TWG.UUCP (Bill Irwin):
> Here  is  one that has got me beat, frustrated and down right  angry.   I
> have  some  files  in a directory that I can't remove.  

Your shell probably strips the high order bit which causes rm to be unable
to delete these files.
You can remove them using a c-program. I wrote a shell script that creates
a c-program that does the job:


-------------------  cut here   ------------------
echo "main() {"
ls -b | sed 's/\(\\\)\([^0]\)/\10\2/g
s/\\$/\\\\/
s/"/\\"/g
s/^/unlink(\"/
s/$/");/
' 
echo "}" 
-------------------  cut here   ------------------


Run this script in the directory and it will generate a program
dl.c Compile the program (cc dl.c -o dl). The run ./dl and there 
will be no need to reformat your anymore disk :-)


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Ronald Pikkert                 E-mail: ronald@atcmp.nl
@ AT Computing b.v.            Tel:    080 - 566880
Toernooiveld
6525 ED  Nijmegen