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

Raymond Wiker Raymond.Wiker at fast.no
Thu May 5 06:08:50 PDT 2005


Erik Udo writes:
 > 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.

        How about rm -i ./*?



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