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From: Bob Melson on 6 Jun 2010 21:16 On Sunday 06 June 2010 18:39, MZ (mark(a)nospam.void) opined: > Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 6/6/2010 5:53 PM, MZ wrote: >>> I'm trying to remove a directory, but some of the files remain and it >>> gives me the error "illegal byte sequence". How do I get rid of these >>> files? >> >> I've never seen that error, but I wonder if it has something to do with >> the file names you're trying to get rid of. It may be that rm is >> interpreting >> them as args or something. Try this: >> >> rm -rf -- dir >> >> Otherwise these feels like some kind of Unicode silliness... >> > > Same error. > > I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but this folder was the /usr > directory copied onto FreeBSD 8 from a FreeBSD 7.2 install. The > specific problem directory is usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.4/ ... Can you cd into the directory? If so, do that, then "rm -rf *". If _that_ completes without error, "cd ..;rm -rf <your_directory_name>. If it _doesn't_ complete without error and there are sub-directories, cd into each of _them_ and do the rm -rf business for each. Doesn't sound to me like there's an easier way to solve your problem. Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
From: Indi on 6 Jun 2010 23:57 On 2010-06-07, MZ <mark(a)nospam.void> wrote: > > # rm -rf "CupsIppOperation.h" > rm: CupsIppOperation.h: Illegal byte sequence chflags? -- Caveat utilitor, indi
From: Bob Eager on 7 Jun 2010 02:50 On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:39:10 -0400, MZ wrote: > Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> On 6/6/2010 5:53 PM, MZ wrote: >>> I'm trying to remove a directory, but some of the files remain and it >>> gives me the error "illegal byte sequence". How do I get rid of these >>> files? >> >> I've never seen that error, but I wonder if it has something to do with >> the file names you're trying to get rid of. It may be that rm is >> interpreting them as args or something. Try this: >> >> rm -rf -- dir >> >> Otherwise these feels like some kind of Unicode silliness... >> >> > Same error. > > I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but this folder was the /usr > directory copied onto FreeBSD 8 from a FreeBSD 7.2 install. The > specific problem directory is usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.4/ ... Get the inode number for the directory, and clri(8) it? Then fsck. Drastic, but worked for me...even back on v6. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1976)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
From: David Malone on 7 Jun 2010 04:08 MZ <mark(a)nospam.void> writes: >I'm trying to remove a directory, but some of the files remain and it >gives me the error "illegal byte sequence". How do I get rid of these >files? "Illegal byte sequence" sounds like a locale related error. You could try clearing running rm with a clear environment: env - rm -fr -- directory David.
From: Mike Clarke on 7 Jun 2010 04:25
Bob Eager wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:39:10 -0400, MZ wrote: > >> Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> On 6/6/2010 5:53 PM, MZ wrote: >>>> I'm trying to remove a directory, but some of the files remain and it >>>> gives me the error "illegal byte sequence". How do I get rid of these >>>> files? [snip] >> I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but this folder was the /usr >> directory copied onto FreeBSD 8 from a FreeBSD 7.2 install. The >> specific problem directory is usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.4/ ... > > Get the inode number for the directory, and clri(8) it? Then fsck. > > Drastic, but worked for me...even back on v6. Having got the inode number this might work, but only for deleting a single file at a time ... find . -inum nnnn -delete or, more cautiously find . -inum nnnn -ok rm {} \; .... this approach has often got me out of a hole when dealing with "impossible" file names. -- Mike Clarke |