[olug] Unix Tip: RENAMING UNPRINTABLE DIRECTORIES

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			Unix Tip 2046 - August  8, 2003

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RENAMING UNPRINTABLE DIRECTORIES

This happened just the other day, 
and wanted to make it available.

We discovered a directory with 
no name or unprintable characters:

    foohost# ls -ail 
    208978 drwxr-xr-x  1        2430 Aug  3  13:08 
    209299 drwxr-xr-x  24       3287 Oct 25  1993 . 
    208946 drwxr-xr-x  49        447 Jun 22  1993 ..

Using the '-i' option in ls 
provided the inode of the directory.
We then were able to move the 
directory to another name so we
could see what was in it using
a find command:

foohost# find . -inum 208946 -exec mv {}  new.dir \;

Worked like a charm.


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