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macOS Ting Vit.html file I can not get rid of
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Go into the Legal.rtf directory. Do:
ls -lq
The 'q' option shows nonprintable characters in the filename as a '?' character. I'm curious to see if that's part of the problem.
ls -lq
The 'q' option shows nonprintable characters in the filename as a '?' character. I'm curious to see if that's part of the problem.
lb0004:~ sandymartinez$ cd /users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf
lb0004:/users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf sandymartinez$ ls -lq
ls: Tiếng Việt.html: No such file or directory
lb0004:/users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf sandymartinez$
lb0004:~ sandymartinez$ cd /users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf
lb0004:/users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf sandymartinez$ ls -b
Tie\314\202\314\201ng Vie\314\202\314\243t.html
lb0004:/users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf sandymartinez$
While in legal.rtf, do:
stat -x *
That'll give you the Inode numbers of all files in the directory, including this troublesome Tieng file. We are going to remove this file, not by name but by Inode number. Post this number here.
stat -x *
That'll give you the Inode numbers of all files in the directory, including this troublesome Tieng file. We are going to remove this file, not by name but by Inode number. Post this number here.
lb0004:/users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf sandymartinez$ stat -x *
stat: Tiếng Việt.html: stat: No such file or directory
lb0004:/users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf sandymartinez$
Ok, since we had some luck with 'ls -b', let's do it again and get the inode number with 'i', i.e.
ls -ib
That should print out something like:
123456 Tie\314\202\314\201ng Vie\314\202\314\243t.html
where '123456' is the files inode number. Take that number and use it as follows:
find . -inum 123456 exec rm -f {} \;
ls -ib
That should print out something like:
123456 Tie\314\202\314\201ng Vie\314\202\314\243t.html
where '123456' is the files inode number. Take that number and use it as follows:
find . -inum 123456 exec rm -f {} \;
lb0004:/users/sandymartinez/desktop/legal.rtf sandymartinez$ ls -ib
ls: Tiếng Việt.html: No such file or directory
I'd try swapping the order of the 'b' and 'i' arguments to ls, so 'ls -bi' instead of 'ls -ib', and try my suggestion one more time.
If that doesn't work, then I'm guessing your filesystem is corrupted. You can either run fsck as root or open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app and check the integrity of your filesystem.
If that doesn't work, then I'm guessing your filesystem is corrupted. You can either run fsck as root or open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app and check the integrity of your filesystem.
Out of curiosity, I tried to reproduce:
I'm guessing possible disk issue -- I would run fsck as suggested.
Also -- what filesystem are you using? (Open Disk Utility, select your partition, then at the bottom of the app read Format)
Code:
craig:~/tmp# touch "`echo $'Tie\314\202\314\201ng Vie\314\202\314\243t.html'`"
craig:~/tmp# ls
Tiếng Việt.html
craig:~/tmp# rm Tiếng\ Việt.html
craig:~/tmp# ls
craig:~/tmp#I'm guessing possible disk issue -- I would run fsck as suggested.
Also -- what filesystem are you using? (Open Disk Utility, select your partition, then at the bottom of the app read Format)
I had a similar problem. I ended up moving the file to /tmp/ to get rid of it (that worked), but I don't know why.