req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number

Erik Udo erik.u at dnainternet.net
Thu May 5 04:53:49 PDT 2005


Julien Gabel wrote:
>>>I couldn't find a way to remove files that had scandic/non-printable
>>>letters, then i remembered ls showed inode number of the file. Is it
>>>possible to remove the file by the inode number? It would be a
>>>useful feature :)
>>>
>>>I bet there is a way to remove those files, but only
>>>third party programs came to my mind.
> 
> 
> I think the -inum option of the find(1) utility can do the trick.
> 

After trying clri, maybe find(1) is a better way :). I can imagine what 
would happen when i would use clri on wrong slice :)


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