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

Erik Udo erik.u at dnainternet.net
Thu May 5 04:47:57 PDT 2005


Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:19:41PM +0300, Erik Udo 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.
> 
> 
> If you want do to it the hard way:  clri(8)
> 
> :-)
> 

Thanks! I'll use clri for this. It would still be a nice
feature in rm, after all, i dont think it's that hard to
make.


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