naive nacelle
I noticed a weird file in my home directory which had a name consisting of non ascii characters. When I try to remove or delete it, I get an error saying it doesn't exist. I had this issue on Dolphin, terminal (rm) as well as when trying to renaming the file programmatically (nodejs, which i'm pretty sure is just an interface for syscalls)
The images are: the file on ls -la, when i hit tab on the terminal emulator, the appearance of the file on Dolphin (for some reason has a lock icon on it)
what i tried with nodejs (i used nodejs so I don't have to deal with copy-paste issues since the nonascii characters may cause trouble):
> let dir = fs.readdirSync('./');
undefined
> dir[dir.length-1]
'�����U'
> fs.renameSync(dir[dir.length-1], 'test.file');
Uncaught Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '�����U' -> 'test.file'
at Object.renameSync (node:fs:1026:3) {
errno: -2,
syscall: 'rename',
code: 'ENOENT',
path: '�����U',
dest: 'test.file'
}
(reading the file threw a similar ENOENT error)
rigid scarab
Type "ls -i" to get the inode of the file/dir and then:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -inum INODE -delete
to delete it. Replace "INODE" with the value you got with "ls -i"
naive nacelle
is there a way of reading the contents ?
or is it like a file pointer that points to no content?
rigid scarab
I have no idea, it looks like a corrupt file to me. Do you tried to open it via editor?
naive nacelle
it tells me that the file doesnt exist
i did a bit of googling about "inodes"
it's a new concept to me
[jim@jamo ~]$ find -inum 22807145 -exec cat {} \;
[KCrash]
exe=�����U
platform=xcb
display=:0
appname=�����U
apppath=�~���U
signal=11
pid=670
looks like a KDE crash report?
rigid scarab
it's just meta data