Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 02:50:02 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inodes and filenames Message-ID: <20000704025002.B13714@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000703172652.B96459@manatee.mammalia.org> References: <200007031005.LAA17295@ngo.org.uk> <Pine.GHP.4.21.0007031245230.12683-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20000703101323.A84689@manatee.mammalia.org> <20000703210825.A48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000703172652.B96459@manatee.mammalia.org>
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R Joseph Wright wrote:
>> huh? What command are you typing to get that? I reckon it must be
>> something like
>>
>> $ find -inum 4
>>
>> but putting '-x' in wouldn't make any difference. So what are you actually
>> typing?
>
> Exactly as you say. The man page doesn't explicitly say it, but I think
> you have to use a letter option, though not necessarily the -x option. Is
> that correct?
No, you need to specify *where* you want to look for the files. :-)
$ find / -inum 4
or whatever.
SYNOPSIS
find [-H | -L | -P] [-Xdsx] [-f pathname] [pathname ...] expression
...
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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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