On Thursday 16 July 2009 11:55:38 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
On Thursday 16 July 2009 11:03:33 pm Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David C. Rankin
[07-16-09 23:51]: try midnightcommand in a text console.
OK,
Here is the issue. mc seems to be running and deleting the files after I selected the directory and told it to delete rather than trying to descend into the directory. mc is working on deleting thousands of files named:
/home/samba/computer/fonts/V2/.directory.lock.Esto70 /home/samba/computer/fonts/V2/.directory.lock.bgVe70 /home/samba/computer/fonts/V2/.directory.lock.XrXa70 /home/samba/computer/fonts/V2/.directory.lock.IaWj70 /home/samba/computer/fonts/V2/.directory.lock.NpUm70
Patrick, thanks, mc worked! Judging from the time of my first post, mc took just over 3 hours to delete all of the files in the fonts/V2 directory. There must have been thousands and thousands of them. That is really strange that using (misusing) 'tr' could cause the thousands of files to be created. Looking at my bash_history, one of the following commands is the one that did it: 4942 for i in $(ls); do tr [A-Z] [a-z] $i; done 4943 for i in $(ls); do tr [a-z] $i; done 4945 for i in $(ls); do echo $(tr [a-z] $i); done 4946 for i in $(ls); do echo $(tr $i [a-z]); done 4947 for i in $(ls); do echo $i; done 4948 for i in $(ls); do echo $i | tr 'a-z'; done 4949 for i in $(ls); do echo $i | tr [a-z]; done 4950 for i in $(ls); do echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z'; done I never knew 'tr' could have such adverse side effects. I wonder which one did it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org