aponty@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Adele Ponty) (05/09/91)
One of the users on our system somehow managed to create an
entry in our user_data directory which now appears at the
top of the directory listing as, -k@ . A long listing
reveals it to be some sort of link entry they tried to create;
l--------- -k@ ... ... -k@ -> df
Can someone tell me how to get rid of it? Can I prevent this
from happening again? Thanks in advance.
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aponty@agora.rain.com (alternate) =======g=urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban) (05/09/91)
In article <1991May9.051239.15919@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> aponty@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Adele Ponty) writes: >One of the users on our system somehow managed to create an >entry in our user_data directory which now appears at the >top of the directory listing as, -k@ . A long listing >reveals it to be some sort of link entry they tried to create; >l--------- -k@ ... ... -k@ -> df >Can someone tell me how to get rid of it? Can I prevent this >from happening again? Thanks in advance. > See the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) #1 and 2. This was probably create via: # ln -s df '-k\@' <- Note \ is to escape the @ symbol. # ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 2 May 8 09:22 -k@ -> df drwxrwxrwx 2 sys sys 512 May 8 09:22 . drwxrwxr-x 24 root sys 512 May 7 15:38 .. To remove it type in: # rm - -k\@ The first - notifies rm that all the arguements are done so therefore the -k isn't an argument to rm but a file name. You could have also typed in: # rm ./-k\@ Sincerely, John Ben Urban att!attunix!jbu