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From: predict@charon.unm.edu (Andrew R. Large)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ghost file
Message-ID: <3955@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 88 02:22:45 GMT
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Reply-To: predict@charon.unm.edu.UUCP (Andrew R. Large)
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In article <17529@adm.BRL.MIL> ZAT011%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Thomas Heil) writes:
>I got a little problem with  a "ghost file". It appears when I  list the
>contents of  a directory, but  it can't be accessed  in any way  - every
>program tells  me it doesn't  exist. It can't  even be removed.  But the

Most likely, the file name has some control characters in it that are not
displayed by {ls,your terminal}.  Try doing a 
	% vi *
and see what vi calls it or 
	% ls > file ; vi file
to see what the actual file name is.  You can probably verify its existence by
doing an od -c on the directory and checking the inode number.

In most cases, an rm * should take care of it, or an rm -rf on the dir.
If not, try an fsck on the partition and see if the file goes away.

-- Andy
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