Re: Most baffling file issue

From: Theresa Sarver (tsarver.IFMC@SDPS.ORG)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 16:07:54 EST


That did it!

Thank you so much!

Theresa

>>> booth@UIUC.EDU 03/07/03 03:05PM >>>
Yes, it does have a CR in it. You can attempt to remove it with rm -i *
which will ask for confirmation on each file. After the file is listed, type
y <enter> and then ^C to get out of the rm.

bob

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:01:39PM -0500, Theresa Sarver wrote:
> I have an issue that I'm not quite sure how to explain, as I'm not real sure as to what I'm looking at? I noticed our sysback backup was failing on account of one /tmp/NH.rstatus file. So I went to look at it and this is what I see:
>
> /tmp>ls -la|pg
> total 12688
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 2048 Jun 14 2002
> NH.rstatus
> drwxrwxrwt 9 bin bin 2048 Mar 07 15:40 .
> drwxr-xr-x 30 bin bin 1024 Mar 07 10:21 ..
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 03 04:09 .PMDV1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root system 512 Mar 04 09:53 .VimMessageClients
> srwxrwxrwx 1 root system 0 Mar 04 09:52 .VimMessageServer
>
> Am I looking at this right - does this file begin with a carriage return? And if so, how in the world do I get rid of it as everything I've tried comes back with "file does not exist".
>
> /tmp>ls -la NH.rstatus
> ls: 0653-341 The file NH.rstatus does not exist.
>
> Thanks in advance for the help;
> Theresa



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