SUMMARY: lost+found entries

I got the answer I wanted within 5 minutes of posting the question.

Judging by some of the answers I got I guess that I didn't pose the
question properly.  I know where and how the entries are added to
lost+found, that wasn't the issue the question was how to deal with the
entries based on how ls and cd were re-acting.

The answer is "it's the shell stupid!" and how # is interpreted.

In csh/tcsh, which I use most of the time, the # as a directory or as part
of a directory name is handled as just another character and ls and cd
react as expected, sh and ksh on the other hand treat # as a special
character and have to be protected with either a backslash or quotes.

Thanks to

Vandevegt, James Matthew (Jim)
Tim Pointing
joe.fletcher@btconnect.com
Marty Davis
Andrew J Caines
Paul Clayton
Vberg Mats
Alan Bradley
Steve Elliott


Pete Geenhuizen said:
> I just found several directories in /lost+found, and when I cd into any
> of them I find my self in /, if I do an ls -l of any of the directories
> it returns a list of /lost+found.  See abreviate example below.
>
> Anyone run into this?
> Question is what to what to do?
>
> This is Solaris 8, and I've seen it before in 2.6, never had a chance to
> pursue it then, but I sure would like to figure it out now and deal with
> it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pete
>
> # cd /lost+found
> # ls -l
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   1024 Sep   2 03:35 #017699
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   4608 Sep   2 03:35 #017726
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   4608 Aug  26 02:23 #069369
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other  12288 Aug  19 02:23 #096723
> ...
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other  68096 Sep   2 03:35 #242235
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   2048 Sep   2 03:35 #254247
>
> # ls -l #017699
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   1024 Sep   2 03:35 #017699
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   4608 Sep   2 03:35 #017726
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   4608 Aug  26 02:23 #069369
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other  12288 Aug  19 02:23 #096723
> ...
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other  68096 Sep   2 03:35 #242235
> drwx-r-xr-x   2  root  other   2048 Sep   2 03:35 #254247
> # cd #017699
> # pwd
> /
> #
>

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