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

Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR allbery at NCoast.ORG
Tue Feb 12 14:06:16 AEST 1991


As quoted from <2902 at charon.cwi.nl> by dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter):
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| In article <19025 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
|  > In article <MARC.91Feb4134223 at marc.watson.ibm.com> marc at arnor.uucp writes:
|  > >   ...    Then HARD link all the other files into the new directory.
| Oh yes, how to do that if the directory name contains a '/'?
|  >                             The most painless method is to move all
|  > the files and directories out of the directory with the bad entry,
| Same question here.
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clri the directory, then fsck.  The files will be reconnected in lost+found.
Of course, you'll lose the file names.

++Brandon
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