Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 18:55:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number Message-ID: <64693.192.168.1.20.1115312127.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <20050505163054.27317.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com> References: 6667 <20050505163054.27317.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com>
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>> 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.
Or "find [...] -print | xargs \rm" to bypass some problem
with a very long list of files to delete.
--
-jpeg.
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