The directory with no name??

Edward Conger conger at hpcupt1.HP.COM
Thu Apr 12 05:33:15 AEST 1990


/ hpcupt1:comp.unix.wizards / tim at ranier.Data-IO.COM (Tim Rosmus) /  3:20 pm  Apr 10, 1990 /
>>Any one got any ideas on how to cleanly remove this file/directory
>>short of "newfs"?   It was created by using Norton Commander from
>>a PC via PC-NFS.  Doing a "ls -lR" just recursively lists itself
>>until a core dump finally occurs.  DOS (under PC-NFS) doesn't see
>>the file at all.

I may be missing something, but will a "/bin/rm -i *" where you answer
'y' only to the 'nameless' file do the trick for you?


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-Ed.
conger at hpda.hp.com
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