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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number 
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> 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 :)

i haven't seen/used clri in years (maybe decades), but if memory doesn't fail,
clri just zeroes the inode, the blocks are not returned to the freelist!
and if it's a directory things can get nasty.

my .5$

danny