Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-16-09 23:51]:
>       I must have had a script go bad and completely screw up a file
>       or two in a directory and now I cannot "ls" the directory, I
>       cannot "rm -rf" the directory, but I can "mv" the directory and
>       I can "cd" into the directory.
>
>       The directory holds font files and I ran a script with "tr" in
>       the scripts and I had the wrong arguments to tr and now there
>       is a mess.  The directory "V2" has the following properties:
>
> drwxrwxrwx  2 david dcr     128552960 2009-07-16 22:28 V2/                    
>
>       I booted to runlevel 1 and fsck'ed the disk and it is fine. So,
>       I know this is one of those cases where I have screwed up the
>       files in the directory well beyond my ability just delete them
>       and I'm --- stuck.
>
>       What is the best way to recover??

try midnightcommand in a text console.

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