Same file 2 times in a directory

[stephnane]

result of my "ls -l" :
total 54864
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 60 Nov 06 14:34 STK.SYN
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 30 Nov 06 14:34 STK.FIC
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 13746348 Nov 06 14:34 STK.TXT.OLD
drwxrwxrwx 33 adm sys 1536 Nov 07 18:54 BAK
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 540 Nov 07 18:59 STKANCIEN.TXT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 76 Nov 07 19:10 REM_old.DAT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 14199809 Nov 13 11:34 STK.TXT
-rw-r----- 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 3134 Nov 21 16:45 MVT.TXT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 6844 Nov 21 17:27 REM_MVT.DAT
-rw-rw---- 1 adm sys 0 Nov 21 18:47 MVT_20061121_184737.BAD
-rw-rw---- 1 adm sys 0 Nov 21 18:49 MVT_20061121_184912.BAD
-rw-rw---- 1 adm sys 0 Nov 22 10:21 MVT_20061122_102020.BAD
-rw-r----- 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 59 Nov 23 09:42 IMG_STOCK.DAT
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ftpdev ftpgrp 59 Nov 23 10:00 IMG_STOCK.DAT


What's the matter with the 2 last files ? One of them (1st with 640 autorisations is un removable
I tried to delete this one (the first is now already deleted) and to get some commands :
{root} #file IMG_STOCK.DAT
IMG_STOCK.DAT: 0653-901 Cannot get file status.
{root} #rm IMG_STOCK.DAT
rm: IMG_STOCK.DAT: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

What is the matter here ??

Tks

 

[mbourne2006]

Hi

I'd unmount the filesystem and run an fsck against it.

HTH

Kind Regards,
Matthew Bourne
"Find a job you love and never do a day's work in your life.

 

[stephnane]

I ran an fsck with FS mounted and he detected no problem.

 

[madmurdock]

Try it with the -b option of the ls -command. That will display non-printable characters. Two files with the same name are defeinitely not possible. There must be a difference in the two names.

While you are trying to delete this file(s), you can try it with the find command like:

find . -name "*IMG_STOCK.DAT*" -exec rm {} \;

that will remove both files. Be careful

HTH

mad

Advanced Interactive eXecutable

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

use the switch 'ls -i' to display the i-nodes of the files

 

[stephnane]

Problem is resolved.
ls -b show me nothing more, and the ls -i show me that this file had an i-node number ..
I did a find ./ with the exec option to delete it ... and it works.

Thanks a lot !

Stephane

 

[p5wizard]

There were probably some spaces at the end of the file name...

ls -b would not have showed them...

you can get the full file names (noY now anymore because you deleted it by inode) by issuing this:

ls *IMG_STOCK*|od -xc



HTH,

p5wizard