RE: [UUG/MLUG] odd file

["Krug, Christopher T." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Try using ls -i to get the inode number of the mystery file and then
use find . -inum <inode number> -exec cat {} \; to see what is in it.
If you then want to remove the file, you can use find again:
find . -inum <inode number> -exec rm {} \;

For example:

$ ls -i
      3407 some_file                      3787 another_file
      3484 a_third_file                   3177 a_fourth_file
$ find . -inum 3407 -exec cat {} \;

$ find . -inum 3407 -exec rm {} \;

-----Original Message-----
From: Buford, Rick [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 8:09 AM
To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
Subject: RE: [UUG/MLUG] odd file


nope...if I try to touch tat in /, it just makes a new one, if I then try to
remove "tat", it only takes out the one that I touched.

[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# cat tat
cat: tat: No such file or directory
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# rm -f tat
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# touch tat
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root            0 Dec  3 09:07 tat
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# rm -f tat
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
[EMAIL:PROTECTED /]#

I did reboot the system to floppy, and run fsck on the file system, came
back fine.

Rick Buford
Chief Clerk
Medical Records - Transcription
DC042.06 / 884-7452
"Is there another word for synonym?"


   |-----Original Message-----
   |From: Curtis Hall [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
   |Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:29 PM
   |To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
   |Subject: Re: [UUG/MLUG] odd file
   |
   |
   |mmm looks neat.
   |can you guess around it? like cat *tat*
   |or cat tat*?
   |
   |----- Original Message ----- 
   |From: Buford, Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
   |To: <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
   |Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:04 PM
   |Subject: RE: [UUG/MLUG] odd file
   |
   |
   |> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# ls -lb | grep tat
   |> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat\ \b\b\b
   |> 
   |> k...now I'm really confused. Where did this come from?
   |> 
   |> Rick Buford
   |> Chief Clerk
   |> Medical Records - Transcription
   |> DC042.06 / 884-7452
   |> "Is there another word for synonym?"
   |> 
   |> 
   |>    |-----Original Message-----
   |>    |From: Dana Huyler [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
   |>    |Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:46 PM
   |>    |To: 'Mizzou UNIX/Linux Users Group'
   |>    |Subject: Re: [UUG/MLUG] odd file
   |>    |
   |>    |
   |>    |On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Buford, Rick wrote:
   |>    |
   |>    |> What would cause a file to suddenly appear in "/", and 
   |>    |then totally deny
   |>    |> that it exists?
   |>    |> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
   |>    |> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
   |>    |> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# rm -f tat
   |>    |> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
   |>    |> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
   |>    |> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]#
   |>    |
   |>    |'tat' could have some special characters in it, try
   |>    |
   |>    |ls -lb 
   |>    |
   |>    |and see what comes up with 'tat'.
   |>    |
   |> 
   |