13 Dec
2015
13 Dec
'15
4:23 a.m.
On 2015-Dec-12 15:53:54 -0600, Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That was ugly and all of it was output. What exactly
did I wind up with?:
# ls -l
total 19
drwxrwxrwx 2 root 32 Oct 10 12:54 y
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 8704 Oct 10 12:54 t.tar
Ugh. Probably don't need the y directory...
# rmdir y
y ?
# ls y
y not found
Presumably, it's not 'y' but has some non-printable characters in it.
You could try "od -c ." to see what the entry actually is, or move
t.tar out of the way and "rm -r" remove the next level up.
I think this error is simply an effect related to the
failure to create
the necessary directories properly.
If you run "mkdir foo" from the shell, does it work properly? That will
let you split between the problem being in tar and the problem being in
mkdir. Adding some printf()s to checkdir() seems a reasonable step.
--
Peter Jeremy