Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:30:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@yahoo.com> To: simon.roberts@earthlink.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number Message-ID: <20050505163054.27317.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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--- Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A couple of observations:
>
[snip]
[snip]
>
> Point 2, likely as not, might explain why there's no
> simple mechanism for doing this from rm. At the very
> least you'd have to specify the file system you're
> referring to, and many "plain" users couldn't do
> that
> safely. Those that can are probably able to use find
> anyway.
>
A (device no, inode no) can uniquely identify a file
-but then it requires the same amt of traversals (from
the root directory's inode) that any other utility
does. Im not sure rm can optimize anything that a find
.. -exec rm {} \; would.
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> --- Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> wrote:
> > Erik Udo writes:
> > > 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.
> >
> > How about rm -i ./*?
> >
The POSIX std requires -i to be used for 'interactive'
(and even if it didn't that is already the case on
most unix systems).
regards
-kamal
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