Aug 20, 2011 · If you want to delete every corrupt files, you can do this: ls -1 | grep -P "[\x80-\xFF]" | xargs rm Above grep command grep files which has non ASCII characters.

How to remove a file that is corrupted? In Linux (Fedora based), when I type: ls -l I get. I can't do anything with this CorruptedFile. I can't use it in delete or anything. It's the only file in the entire system that is like this. What causes this, and how can I remove it? File system is ext2.

Jan 8, 2020 · Run the following one-liner (the example is for .mp3, you can easily modify it for .wav or other formats if you need. I used -frames 20 option in order to let mplayer to play just a little bit of each file. In the bad.lst there will be a list of 'non-playable' files. You can dispose them with another one-liner: Good luck!

Dec 3, 2017 · You can run file on on the files and see if this shows the expected type. This only looks at the first few bytes of a file, but at least you might be able sort out some of the files that are corrupted in the first block. E.g. file `find /home/user -type f | grep jpg` | sed -e/JPEG/d will show you at least some of the files that are corrupted

May 21, 2011 · Run fsck first to ensure the data is consistent. You may have to use sudo to gain the require privileges to repair. Then you can use rm -i to remove the file. You may want to use less or more to read the file first to see if you want to keep it first. There are a number of tools which allow you to browse and delete files.

Nov 5, 2017 · First, use ls -b to find out what it's really called. @Jesse_b plan was: when you cannot name the file, tell rm to just delete everything. The folder was otherwise empty, because you can move other files out of there. There are a bunch of …

Mar 8, 2016 · You can run cmd-prompt as an administrator, then run chkdsk /X /f C: (C: can be changed to the file starting thingy). And it will auto recover :)

Aug 17, 2018 · Which Linux shell command can completely remove a file from the system and make it unrecoverable?

When a file / dir has special characters and won't delete, you can try to remove it using it's inode number more information on inodes in ext3. To do so, open a terminal window. Change directory cd to the location of the files or directories with the "special characters". find . -inum 1312883 …

You may be able to delete the file using it's inode number. use ls -li to get the inode number of the file. Once you have it, use find to delete it. find . -inum <inode number> -delete