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From: devusr@nswc-oas.arpa
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Ghost file
Message-ID: <17566@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Nov 88 15:06:47 GMT
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(Thomas Heil) writes:
>Hello, folks!
>
>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.

(Paul De Bra <debra@alice.uucp>) responds:
>Another way of trying to delete the file is to try to generate the name:
>if it appears as "ghost" in the directory you could try
>rm *g*h*o*s*t*

Yet another approach would be to use `ls -i' on the directory containing
the ghost file.  Then, use a `find' command to remove the file:

	find . -inum XXX -exec rm {} \;

where XXX is the inode number reported by ls.

/dave