extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

[calleneptuno]

I found a zip archive with a couple of books in *.doc format.
They are named in Spanish; including accented characters. When extracted, system did not recongnize this special characters, I guess is something about encoding of the files.

The problem is that the files won't open nor be deleted. System (dolphin and Konqueror) says "File or folder doesn't exist".

I can't rename them either. It is not a permissions issue; I've tried as sudo too; the answer is the same, system cannot do anything with these files because, although they are there, they "doesn't exist".

I even opened a new text document in OpenOffice Write and saved it with the name of the original file. It overwrote it. Then I deleted. It goes away but a moment after, the old undeletable flie appears again!

Can somebody help? I'm not specialist but I can follow command line instructions. If in Spanish, much better.

Thanks

[mhdbnoimi]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

I've same issue too.

After extracting a zip file contains on files named into Arabic.

Here the log of ls, dir and rm commands:

mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ ls
tmp ??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ???״ ??ۺ ????
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ dir
tmp \336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ rm '\336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333'
rm: cannot remove `\\336\\333ჴڮ\\ \\363\\275ڴ\\333\\ \\331\\375\\203״\\ \\333\\321ۺ\\ \\365\\203\\331\\333': No such file or directory
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ rm -f "\336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333"
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ rm -f "??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ???״ ??ۺ ????"
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ rm "??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ???״ ??ۺ ????"
rm: cannot remove `??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ???״ ??ۺ ????': No such file or directory
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ ls
tmp ??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ???״ ??ۺ ????
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ dir
tmp \336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ rm "\336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333"
rm: cannot remove `\\336\\333ჴڮ\\ \\363\\275ڴ\\333\\ \\331\\375\\203״\\ \\333\\321ۺ\\ \\365\\203\\331\\333': No such file or directory
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $

[vinnywright]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

ok lets see if wear seen this right.....

$ ls tmp ??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ״ ??ۺ ?

is this a file name or a dir name if a dir you nead

rm -rf

f for force and r for recursive

and I think you got the one about escaping spaces with " " or \

VINNY

[mhdbnoimi]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

is this a file name or a dir name

it's a folder, sorry I forgot to paste the right log... here is the correct one:

mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ ls
tmp ??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ???״ ??ۺ ????
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ dir
tmp \336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ rm -rf "??ჴڮ ??ڴ? ???״ ??ۺ ????"
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ dir
tmp \336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ rm -rf "\336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333"
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $ dir
tmp \336\333ჴڮ\ \363\275ڴ\333\ \331\375\203״\ \333\321ۺ\ \365\203\331\333
mbnoimi@admino-mbnoimi ~/Academic/SVU/courses/CMPP-Khalil Ajami/F10/tmp $

[vinnywright]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

try backing out 1 level and removing the /tmp dir.

VINNY

[mhdbnoimi]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

try backing out 1 level and removing the /tmp dir.

It's working but it's not a practical solution because I've ton of this king of files and folders so moving correct files and folders to another location is very exhausted method.

I'm looking for a direct removing method for this kind of files and folders.

[jeremy1701]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

You could try deleting them by inode #:

$ find . -inum [inodenumber] -exec rm -i {} \;

[mhdbnoimi]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

You could try deleting them by inode #:

$ find . -inum [inodenumber] -exec rm -i {} \;

That's it... thank you

[Guest]

Re: extracted files from a zip can't be opened or deleted

I found a zip archive with a couple of books in *.doc format.
They are named in Spanish; including accented characters. When extracted, system did not recongnize this special characters, I guess is something about encoding of the files.

The problem is that the files won't open nor be deleted. System (dolphin and Konqueror) says "File or folder doesn't exist".

I can't rename them either. It is not a permissions issue; I've tried as sudo too; the answer is the same, system cannot do anything with these files because, although they are there, they "doesn't exist".

I even opened a new text document in OpenOffice Write and saved it with the name of the original file. It overwrote it. Then I deleted. It goes away but a moment after, the old undeletable flie appears again!

Can somebody help? I'm not specialist but I can follow command line instructions. If in Spanish, much better.

Thanks

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