Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:24:25 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number Message-ID: <E1DTfOz-0005Sw-OS@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from Erik Udo <erik.u@dnainternet.net> of "Thu, 05 May 2005 14:53:47 %2B0300." <427A094B.8040009@dnainternet.net>
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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
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