Contaminated File Deletion [Solved]

[DataMan]

I've got a file that got "borked / contaminated / messsed up" during a trial upload (development LAMP).

The current file name is

file:///var/www/upload/dmflua_08-�ph�m�re.flac

At root priv's I've tried renaming, deleting, changing ownership.

The warning message returns "file does not exist".

I just want to delete the critter so I can delete the holding directory.

Any ideas?

TIA,

-DataMan

[bjornmu]

The file name doesn't start with file:///, it starts with /var. And is seems to include some strange characters, try removing /var/www/upload/dmflua_08*.flac to avoid having to enter the correct strange characters.

[DataMan]

thanks for the response.

The posting shows the entire path.

At root level I attempted to delete the file without the non-ascii characters ... no go.

-DataMan

[bjornmu]

The file:// prefix is used for access to the file from a web browser, it's not the actual path as seen from the operating system. It would very peculiar indeed (though technically possible) to have such a path, but the triple /// would be redundant.

No, the file path should be /var/www/..... From a terminal,

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rm /var/www/upload/dmflua_08*.flac

should work. Try

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ls /var/www/upload/dmflua_08*.flac

first to confirm that the file exists.

[xenopeek]

Or trying finding the file. First, quickly with locate:

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locate dmflua_08

If that doesn't find the exact path, try with find:

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sudo find / -name dmflua_08* 2>/dev/null

[DataMan]

Thanks,

The "locate" did the trick. Turns out the non-ascii characters were addressable as "?".

-DataMan