Reading Unix file

[Rvir]

One of my ETL process is creating a reject file on unix box with rw rw rw permissions. I tried to view the data but it doesnt show up anything on vi editor. I tried to remove the file but it doesnt work. Please advise me on this

 

[Annihilannic]

Can you paste the output of ls -l?

What error do you get when you remove the file and it doesn't work?

Annihilannic.

 

[KenCunningham]

Is the file empty? ie 0 bytes in size? Can you cat filename or pg filename?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[Rvir]

when i do rm -rf on the file it doesnt show any error but it doesnt remove the file too. When i do ls -l it shows up the file.

 

[Annihilannic]

You shouldn't use -rf habitually... something really bad could happen one day. What happens when you try rm filename instead? The -f option will hide any error messages that might have been displayed.

Also please copy and paste the output of ls -l so we can see it.

Annihilannic.

 

[KenCunningham]

Are you sure the filename doesn't have any special/control characters in it which would prevent rm and vi actually finding it?

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[DrD123]

Hi Rvir ,

If the file is still giving you issues... can you run these and give the output:

file [i]your_file[/i]

fuser [i]your_file[/i]

Good Luck
DrD