On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Tony Abernethy <t...@servacorp.com> wrote: > Ryan Flannery wrote: >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Jordi Beltran Creix >> <jbcreix.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > rm `ls | grep E` would delete that file leaving others alone. >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> >> Just for the list... >> I had tried that incantation, and others involving grep, and >> they all failed. >> >> Output (I just reproduced the file) from your example is: >> >> tarski> wget ftp://rt.fm/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/ports.tar.gz >> ...(wget output)... >> tarski> tar xf ports.tar.gz >> ...(tar output, lots-o-errors, obviously)... >> >> now the file exists with the mucked-up name (see previous post for how >> ls(1) displays it) >> and here's what happens when I use the "rm `ls | grep E`" you >> suggested (and I tried earlier... again with many variations) >> >> tarski> rm `ls | grep E` >> ~,u?} w=R1 T)U7r 5\4gm(_EW]W-sn^[[?1;2c: No such file or directory >> Ec?J9 K%Mx/!...@s S,W7g?5 >> 0,z: No such file or directory M}OWDt?Yw?rB~[*6t?0h|7<aBz_ >> tarski> >> > > You might try something like > mkdir /usr-new > mv /usr/[a-z0-9A-Z]* /usr-new > ls -l /usr > > AFTER EVERYTHING mentionaable has been moved > rm -rf /usr > mv /usr-new /usr
I thought about this... moving everything out of /usr so I could just delete the mischievous file's parent directory, which would certainly have worked. The /usr slice is quite hefty, and the time to move everything to a new partition would have been a while... I kept trying to find another way around this (which probably took way longer than it would have to just copy everything out of /usr to a new partition :)
