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I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but it was a little
messy. Somehow we got a file in the root (/) of our system, named *.* -
perhaps as the destination of some kind of copy command.
Anyway, when clicking, in Ops Nav, on the "root" share we have, only that
"file" showed up. Of course, if I did a WRKLNK '/*.*', all the files with a
period somewhere in the name appeared, including this one.
In QShell, ls ??? (for 3-character names) displayed this file, as well as
the directories with 3-letter names, such as "tmp" and "usr", and their
subtrees - fortunately there is not much in these right now.
This is in the category of deleting files with invalid characters in the name.
Also, I opened that file, in Windows, with TextPad. What I got was the
other 5 files in the root. This is when I got worried.
The problem is, if I try to delete this file in Windows Explorer, I would
also be trying to delete QSYS.LIB - note the period in the middle of the
name - and QFileSvr.400 - not my idea of a good time. And any files in root
that had a period in the name - 5 in this case.
But iSeries is a little safer, as you cannot delete a non-empty directory
by the normal default parameters of RMVDIR. And a 4 in WRKLNK on this file
would probably execute RMVLNK, not RMVDIR. But I was not convinced of this.
QShell is even better, since the "rm" command definitely will not remove
directories.
So I first moved the stream files I wanted to keep into a new directory,
leaving only *.* in the root. Then I started QShell and ran
rm ???
to remove only files with 3-character names, and this worked.
Now everything shows up in Ops Nav. And I put the other files back to the
root. And QSYS.LIB is still here.
Whew!
Vern
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