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Date:      Thu, 5 May 2005 21:35:34 +1000
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number
Message-ID:  <20050505113534.GA13080@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <427A014D.6020809@dnainternet.net>
References:  <427A014D.6020809@dnainternet.net>

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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.

find(1) with -inum and -delete would do the trick.


Tim



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