Gora Mohanty wrote: > Heh, thanks for the headscratch. I think what you are seeing is an > effect of symbolic links. If I understand your description above > correctly, you can get the same effect by doing > mkdir ~/mydir > ln -s ~/mydir ~/mydir # Create a symlink to itself within the dir. > touch ~/mydir/a ~/mydir/b # Create some sample files > Is this what you mean? This might have happened due to some > misconfigured package. You can tell whether ~/mydir/mydir is a symlink > by doing a "ls -l ~/mydir" which would show an arrow in the name of > the symlink. It is probably OK to remove it, unless the package is > somehow dependent on it. In any case, it does no harm to leave it in > place.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/theo/Troubled_files # cd delhi\ fes\ mtg/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/theo/Troubled_files/delhi fes mtg # ls -l total 6648 -rwxrwxrwx 1 theo theo 25600 2005-09-02 09:01 Declaration.doc drwxrwxrwx 12 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 delhi fes mtg -rwxrwxrwx 1 theo theo 101888 2005-09-02 09:01 Dharchula29Oct04.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 theo theo 286720 2005-09-02 09:01 final report.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 theo theo 3531375 2005-09-02 09:01 full_report.pdf drwxrwxrwx 2 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 gallif drwxrwxrwx 2 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 Gallif-25April05 -rwxrwxrwx 1 theo theo 37376 2005-09-02 09:01 hrworkplanjune05.doc drwxrwxrwx 6 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 medplantheofin drwxrwxrwx 12 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 medplantsrep -rwxrwxrwx 1 theo theo 29696 2005-09-02 09:01 rst meet 27th july.doc drwxrwxrwx 3 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 theofc2tofc3 drwxrwxrwx 5 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 theo_ta_bill drwxrwxrwx 2 theo theo 4096 2005-09-02 09:01 wildmeat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/theo/Troubled_files/delhi fes mtg # *** So I can't see any symbolic links but what is visible is the strange directory name delhi\ fes\ mtg/ so I renamed the folder to delhi_fes_mtg and it seems to have solved one level of problems at least. Now I had repeat directories only till the 5 level, which I have deleted and now have one hopefully clean directory. Though I still don't understand why this should happen - thanks ram > > Regards, > Gora _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
