Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!ankh!pinn!sysop
From: sysop@pinn.UUCP (Andy Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ghost file
Summary: Getting rid of the file
Message-ID: <169@pinn.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 04:51:35 GMT
References: <17529@adm.BRL.MIL> <8430@alice.UUCP>
Organization: Pinn, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <8430@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes:
> In article <17529@adm.BRL.MIL> ZAT011%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Thomas Heil) writes:
> I would suspect that the name of the ghost file contains a non-printable
> character, which doesn't show up when you try ls. A way to find out is
> to make an octal dump of the directory.

You can also type in rm -i *   That will interactively ask you to delete
each file including the ghost file.  

Andy