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Date:      Thu, 5 May 2005 09:34:15 -0400
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number
Message-ID:  <20050505133415.GC77223@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <427A07EB.6060405@dnainternet.net>
References:  <427A014D.6020809@dnainternet.net> <20050505114206.GA86050@freebie.xs4all.nl> <427A07EB.6060405@dnainternet.net>

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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 02:47:55PM +0300, Erik Udo wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >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.
> >
> >
> >If you want do to it the hard way:  clri(8)
> >
> >:-)
> >
> 
> Thanks! I'll use clri for this. It would still be a nice
> feature in rm, after all, i dont think it's that hard to
> make.

Way overkill.  find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -inum <inode>

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