I did a download via a torrent file, with results I don't understand.
Rtorrent created a directory and put some files in it, all in a
seemingly normal manner. But the stuff turned out to be a fake, so I
tried to remove it. The result was that the non-hidden files went
away, but two hidden files remained. When I tried to remove them,
nothing happened except the names of the files changed. How does this
happen?

Thanks,

tom arnall
arcata

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-- Jim Hightower


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On 2010-03-08 19:25, tom arnall wrote:
I did a download via a torrent file, with results I don't understand.
Rtorrent created a directory and put some files in it, all in a
seemingly normal manner. But the stuff turned out to be a fake, so I
tried to remove it. The result was that the non-hidden files went
away, but two hidden files remained. When I tried to remove them,
nothing happened except the names of the files changed. How does this
happen?



Need an example.

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Ron Johnson wrote:

On 2010-03-08 19:25, tom arnall wrote:
I did a download via a torrent file, with results I don't understand.
Rtorrent created a directory and put some files in it, all in a
seemingly normal manner. But the stuff turned out to be a fake, so I
tried to remove it. The result was that the non-hidden files went
away, but two hidden files remained. When I tried to remove them,
nothing happened except the names of the files changed. How does this
happen?


Need an example.


Yeah.

I can guess the first part: bash doesn't expand the wildcard to dotfiles
implicitely by default, but the second part? I don't know.


$ rm -f dir/.*
"renames" them? If that's the case, I would look for the unlikely.

What does happen if you issue a
$ rm -rf dir
then?


Would you, by any chance, using a fancy filesystem without unicode support?
(Wild guess.)


-thib


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