Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: <1991Feb12.030616.17010@NCoast.ORG> Date: 12 Feb 91 03:06:16 GMT References: <19025@rpp386.cactus.org> <2902@charon.cwi.nl> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Distribution: comp Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 20 As quoted from <2902@charon.cwi.nl> by dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter): +--------------- | In article <19025@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes: | > In article marc@arnor.uucp writes: | > > ... Then HARD link all the other files into the new directory. | Oh yes, how to do that if the directory name contains a '/'? | > The most painless method is to move all | > the files and directories out of the directory with the bad entry, | Same question here. +--------------- clri the directory, then fsck. The files will be reconnected in lost+found. Of course, you'll lose the file names. ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY