Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename.

[Eoin Woods]

enag at ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:

>In article <HGJ.91Feb5193804 at sage.cc.purdue.edu> hgj at sage.cc.purdue.edu (hgj) writes:

>> ...  For the / character, I would reccomend editing the directory
>> (dired/dired.el) and renaming it to something harmless.  Or, if you
>> really want to teach yourself not to do it again, write a C program
>> to change the name field of the proper inode struct.  (Relatively
>> easy, I would imagine)

>Wrong.  `/' in the file name cannot be cured even by Emacs.  Also,
>there's no "name field" in the inode.  Names are contained in special
>files called directories, which have an inode number and a name for
>each entry (at least).

>> Anyways, no need to get drastic or root in either case.

>Sadly, yes, there is.

As Erik says, yes there is -- The only way to get rid of it is to modify the
filesystem directly through its raw device -- Use fsdb if its available on
your system. If not, get writing some C :-( (or delete the whole file system
and restore from backups :-( )

Eoin.
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