Super User Asked by kraftydevil on January 1, 2022
The file name is ._03 Überlin.mp3
, and it lives in a folder on a Western Digital NAS external drive, being accessed on a Mac:
$ ls -al
total 128
[email protected] 1 kraftydevil staff 264 Jul 23 03:58 .
[email protected] 1 kraftydevil staff 296 Jul 24 05:30 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 kraftydevil staff 4096 Aug 24 2013 ._03 Überlin.mp3
Finder: Simple Delete
Yields "The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error code -43)"
Finder: Delete Enclosing Folder
Yields "The operation can’t be completed because the item "album" is in use."
Terminal: rm Attempts
$ #escape the space
$ rm ._03 Überlin.mp3
rm: ._03 Überlin.mp3: No such file or directory
$ #escape the space and the 'Ü'
$ rm ._03 Überlin.mp3
rm: ._03 Überlin.mp3: No such file or directory
$ #escape the space, the 'Ü', and the '_'
$ rm ._03 Überlin.mp3
rm: ._03 Überlin.mp3: No such file or directory
$ #use single quotes
$ rm '._03 Überlin.mp3'
rm: ._03 Überlin.mp3: No such file or directory
$ #use double quotes
$ rm "._03 Überlin.mp3"
rm: ._03 Überlin.mp3: No such file or directory
$ #use --
$ rm -v -- ._03 Überlin.mp3
rm: ._03 Überlin.mp3: No such file or directory
Terminal: Delete With ‘find’
find . -type f -name "._*" -perm +w -delete
No output and the file persists
Terminal: Delete By Inode Number Lookup
$ ls -ali
total 128
94691 [email protected] 1 kraftydevil staff 264 Jul 24 12:45 .
96821 [email protected] 1 kraftydevil staff 296 Jul 24 12:33 ..
94756 -rw-rw-rw- 1 kraftydevil staff 4096 Aug 24 2013 ._03 Überlin.mp3
$ find . -inum 94756 -delete
find: -delete: unlink(./._03 Überlin.mp3): No such file or directory
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