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From: jgy@hropus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Confused file name in directory
Message-ID: <898@hropus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 11:15:06 EST
Article-I.D.: hropus.898
Posted: Fri Feb 27 11:15:06 1987
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> In article <2136@ptsfa.UUCP> ssl@ptsfa.UUCP (Sam Lok) writes:
> >But as a last to the last resort, if you don't really want to get rid
> >of things, I'll try this before 'clri':
> >	1. make sure there's only one directory and/or filename start
> >	   with D
> >	2. then 'mv D* goodname'
> >Didn't try this with D\0a though, this might/might not work, but doesn't
> >hurt give it a try before earsing everything.  As long as D* expands into
> >one name, mv will work.
> >
> >Sam Lok		San Francisco		{ihnp4,pyramid,qantel}!ptsfa!ssl
> 
> I don't think this will work (I don't want to screw up a directory to
> find out).  I can't think of any way that ANY program (other than the
> "clri" and "fsck" method mentioned previously) that can get rid of this
> file.  The problem is that a string must be passed to unlink() (or
> rename()).  Assuming you can get a pathname with a null in it through
> the shell into some utility, it will have to call this routine which of
> course will consider the null to be the end of the pathname.
> 
> If anybody can think of a solution (other than zapping the inode
> directly; I know that will work) it would interest me.  (There's no way
> to write into a directory, right?)
> -- 
> Mike McNally, mercifully employed at Digital Lynx ---
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> 

Just use fsdb to change the name of the file to anything you want.