boyer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chuck Boyer) (06/20/91)
ni Thank you for your attention to this post. I am using Minix 1.3 on an at. I have had two strange directories created in my /usr directory; drwxrwxrwx 2 root 32 Jan1 1970 >3LR drwxrwxrwx 2 root 32 Jan1 1970 |^ created, perhaps in the process of un'tar'ing or compress -d some files? (The same thing happened to me on my Unix machine at work, and the sysop suggested that that was perhaps how it was created) At work 'rm -r \|\^ worked to remove the dirs (the characters were different). On Minix I tried lots of variations of the above without results. Hmmm... (rm -r \|\^, rm -r '\|\^', rmdir \|\^, rmdir |^, rmdir -r |^, rmdir -f |^) etc. Is there any harm in having those bogus dirs there? (I like to keep a clean structure). Also, could somebody please explain to me what the numbers mean in the ls node listing above and below? drwxrwxrwx 11 root 192 Jun 13 20:21 src For instance; what is the 11 in reference to? and the 192, I guessed that the 32 is an empty directory, because I created a directory and it had that number on it also. (I can surmise the date and time. Thanks, chuck -- - - - - - - - - - Chuck Boyer, ITS, Seattle University boyer@sumax.seattleu.edu - - - - - - - - -
Joerg Conradt <jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de> (06/26/91)
> > ni hi > Thank you for your attention to this post. > I am using Minix 1.3 on an at. > I have had two strange directories created in my /usr directory; > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root 32 Jan1 1970 >3LR > drwxrwxrwx 2 root 32 Jan1 1970 |^ > > created, perhaps in the process of un'tar'ing or compress -d some files? > (The same thing happened to me on my Unix machine at work, and the sysop > suggested that that was perhaps how it was created) > At work 'rm -r \|\^ worked to remove the dirs (the characters were different). > On Minix I tried lots of variations of the above without results. Hmmm... > > (rm -r \|\^, rm -r '\|\^', rmdir \|\^, rmdir |^, rmdir -r |^, rmdir -f |^) > etc. > Is there any harm in having those bogus dirs there? (I like to keep a clean > structure). you can write a small shell scrip, e.g. for i in * do echo -n "next file $i delete it? " read d if [ "$d" = "y" ] then rm "$i" fi done this will ask you for each file in the directory to delete it... of course you can replace rm by rm -r if you want to remove directorys. > Also, could somebody please explain to me what the numbers > mean in the ls node listing above and below? > > drwxrwxrwx 11 root 192 Jun 13 20:21 src > > For instance; what is the 11 in reference to? and the 192, I guessed that > the 32 is an empty directory, because I created a directory and it had that > number on it also. (I can surmise the date and time. > if you create a new file in a directory, the value 32 becomes 16 more, the first 32 are for "." and "..". and even if you delete a file in that directory, the 16 stays, because the file-name is remembered in the directory-file. i don't know anything about the other number. > Thanks, > chuck > hope this helps joerg -- Joerg Conradt Berlin, Germany || UUCP: jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de