> For some reason, ftpd left some garbage in my ftp directory:
>
> 227329 drwxr-xr-x 3 ftp ftp 1024 Sep 6 13:37
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> ??????????????????????????????????????????
>
>
> This is a tree of directories (I don't know how deep it goes) (I ran ls -li),
> some of the entries appear to be blank (i.e. in fr I get /////)
>
> What tool/metholodgies/reading to you recommend? (I essentially want to
> do rm -rf by inode number).
The trick I use is:
$ touch blah
$ ls -i blah
337929 blah
$ find . -inum 337929 -exec rm {} \;
If it is a tree, you can rm -rf the top entry and it should clean up
the rest.
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