Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!bywater!arnor!arnor!marc From: marc@arnor.uucp Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 18:42:23 GMT References: <821@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> <11714@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Feb3.041129.16590@uncle.uucp> Sender: news@arnor.uucp (NNTP News Poster) Distribution: comp Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York Lines: 9 In-Reply-To: donlash@uncle.uucp's message of 3 Feb 91 04:11:29 GMT An alternative is to make a new directory with the same parent as the bad one. Then HARD link all the other files into the new directory. Then blow away the bad one. You will probably have to unlink the bad directory to blow it away. Having done that, you should fsck the file system to clean up. -- Marc Auslander