From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 21:22:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B3C37BA18 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139Hqc-000649-00; Tue, 04 Jul 2000 02:50:02 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139Hqc-000Fm9-00; Tue, 04 Jul 2000 02:50:02 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 02:50:02 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: R Joseph Wright Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Inodes and filenames Message-ID: <20000704025002.B13714@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200007031005.LAA17295@ngo.org.uk> <20000703101323.A84689@manatee.mammalia.org> <20000703210825.A48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000703172652.B96459@manatee.mammalia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000703172652.B96459@manatee.mammalia.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable R Joseph Wright wrote: >> huh? What command are you typing to get that? I reckon it must be >> something like >>=20 >> $ find -inum 4 >>=20 >> but putting '-x' in wouldn't make any difference. So what are you actua= lly >> typing? >=20 > 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?=20 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 =2E.. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: Suxwi8Pgqcvg3UYV9VK5s9M6KOIlZ5x2 iQCVAwUBOWFCySsPVtiZOS99AQFhMQP/Z0VcErVRFZuD9klyw1qLgnzD+Vx8Hun7 7vYEgXx4dUt5ak6j0dJ9QXbmpwF3s6Z0PWIsQ/T7POxbkf4FxfccPy6hO3BEUoeK x3ePLiJreajnV2F+LnjnywAKANFcwti1smU10K5us+ox2lq1P779uk0rythhZJoM Wsh6q20iiA4= =BDkz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message