Originally posted by: donalson

We had a user who accidentally created a directory named /home/username/tools/../

We've tried everything we can think of to delete it. We are using JFS2 and AIX 6.1.

Any ideas? Thanks.
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Originally posted by: DjRobin69

Carefully! cd to the direct, backup all and do a rm -ir * - should prompt you first and pick up everything in the directory
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Originally posted by: j.gann

i suspect it's hard to create this directory in the first place. possibly it has some non-printable characters around the "..".
suggested method is "ls -li" (shows inode numbers in first column)
and "find . -inum <inode number of dir to delete> -exec <your favourite rmdir rm -r or whatever cmd> \;"
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Originally posted by: j.gann

just to make it complete:
"find . -inum <inode number of dir to delete> -exec <your favourite rmdir rm -r or whatever cmd> {} \;"
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Originally posted by: flodstrom

Using various gui/menu tools, such as dtfile or mc (Midnight Commander), can be surprisingly effective in dealing with odd characters in file/directory names.

Note that you need X for dtfile. Also, mc is not standard AIX, you can find it as an rpm though.
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