Subject: bug#14951: Cannot rm file

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:20:52 +0100

tag 14951 notabug
close 14951
stop

On 07/25/2013 04:03 PM, [email-masked] wrote:
> Cannot delete file:
> 
> # rm web.process.heartbeat
> rm: cannot remove `web.process.heartbeat': No such file or directory
> # rm -f web.process.heartbeat
> # ll
> ls: cannot access web.process.heartbeat: No such file or directory
> total 0
> ?????????? ? ? ? ?            ? web.process.heartbeat

Notice the "? " at the start of the file name.
Seems like you have a file with non standard characters in the name.
`ls -lb` might indicate better what the chars are,
and you could use ctrl-v to input literal controls chars
as arguments to rm. Alternatively you may prefer
to graphically select the file for deletion with xdg-open .

thanks,
Pádraig.