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From: mchinni@ardec.arpa (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  Ghost file
Message-ID: <17617@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:00:53 GMT
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bill vermillion <bill@bilver.uucp>
> In article <169@pinn.UUCP+ sysop@pinn.UUCP (Andy Johnson) writes:
> +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
> 
> I tried that (rm -i *) with a ghost file and it did NOT work.  Dumped the
> directory and found that the file name had a printable letter, 0x08, and two
> more letters.  The 0x08 (backspace) effectively masked the first letter.
> rm -i *  would prompt with the name, and then give a file not found error.
> The only way to get rid of one of those is to kill with the
> find . -inum   etc, etc  routine posted earlier.

When I tried the following:
	1) set "stty erase ^X"
	2) echo hi > a^Hqw
	3) set "stty erase ^H"
	4) rm -i *
"rm" doesn't complain.  System is ULTRIX 1.2. rm is /bin/rm
(std. rm). When doing a "ls" I get the file showing as "a?qw".   
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