Cannot Delete a File

I am on TS6.5. Just now i was asked to delete a DCR with in the teamsite workarea it has a very long name ( Consider a Mini paragraph). I cannot delete it from Workarea using File>Delete nor i could delete it from the iw-mount. Now it is starting to bug me. Is there is way to delete it like kill in unix.

Thanks

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nipper

Can you see this file with any iw tools ? Maybe iwrlog or iwattrib ? What does file properties say from the GUI ?

I assume you have tried del with a wildcard

Is blowing the directory away an option ? If not, you could try to move the other files to a temp dir, remove the original dir and rename the temp. Obviously you need some successful submits before and a clean WA

I have never tried that but it *should* work.

Adam Stoller

I am on TS6.5. Just now i was asked to delete a DCR with in the teamsite workarea it has a very long name ( Consider a Mini paragraph). I cannot delete it from Workarea using File>Delete nor i could delete it from the iw-mount. Now it is starting to bug me. Is there is way to delete it like kill in unix.

Thanks

How many characters in the filename?
Are there any "special" characters in the filename?

You could try running the following script (pass it the path of the directory to scan - or "." for the current directory):

use strict;
use warnings;

my $dir = shift;
opendir(DIR, $dir) || die "[opendir] '$dir' ($!)";
my @files = grep { ! -d "$dir/$_" } readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

foreach my $e (@files) {
    my $len = length($e);
    print "[$len]: ";
    foreach my $c (split(//, $e)) {
        if (ord($c) > 31 && ord($c) < 126) { print $c; }
        else                               { print chr($c); }
    }
    print "\n";
}

It's not a great piece of code - I threw it together quickly, and I'm sure there's a better way to do it - but in a pinch it might help determine the source of the problem.

Alternatively you could try:

rm -i ./*

in the directory where the problematic file is - and just hit <Return> for anything you don't want to remove and y<Return> for the file you want to delete.

chicka

I assume your TS is running on Solaris box. In this case you can try removing the file from your WA and perform a submit operation. This will remove the same from STAGING area. Could you please have a try?