Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:10:26 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm command problem Message-ID: <453A8CC2.1080405@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <ehb3o0$kvq$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <20061020162119.49001.qmail@web25221.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <45390333.4020007@pixelhammer.com> <ehb3o0$kvq$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> DAve wrote:
>
>>
>> director# find . -inum 107763 -exec rm -i {} \;
>> remove ./.rhosts? y
>
>
> Well, that was fun! I was wondering just how many different ways people
> could come up with deleting the file, but this one has to be crowned the
> winner of the all important "Most Obscure Solution" :-) To delete
> something
> based upon the inode - fantastic!
Most handy for filenames loaded with unprintable characters which "ls"
just shows as "?" and which you have no clue how to type or wildcard,
but not required for simple - prefixed files, as has been demonstrated :-)
--Alex
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