Confused file name in directory

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Thu Feb 26 01:25:56 AEST 1987


In article <563 at aw.sei.cmu.edu.sei.cmu.edu> pdb at sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) writes:
>
>As a last resort you could use 'clri' on the inode associated with that
>file (use 'ls -li' to find the inode numner).  fsck will certainly allow
>you to clear the directory entry once it realizes the inode's been zeroed.
>
>--Pat.

But as a last to the last resort, if you don't really want to get rid
of things, I'll try this before 'clri':
	1. make sure there's only one directory and/or filename start
	   with D
	2. then 'mv D* goodname'
Didn't try this with D\0a though, this might/might not work, but doesn't
hurt give it a try before earsing everything.  As long as D* expands into
one name, mv will work.


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