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Subject: Re: deleting directories with ??? in name
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Parv wrote:

> in message <20040316035734.GC3419@moo.holy.cow>,
> wrote Parv thusly...
> 
>>    # find . \( -inum <inode-1> -o -inum <inode-2> \) -print0 \
>>    # | xargs -0 rm -fv
> 
> 
> Oh, don't forget the '-r', for recursion, option for rm(1) as i did.
> Use this instead...
> 
>   # find . \( -inum <inode-1> -o -inum <inode-2> \) -print0 \
>   # | xargs -0 rm -rfv
> 
> 
>   - Parv

Thanks, but when I did:
ls -i
and then typed in the inode in the command (saved in
an old List e-mail):
find . -inum <inode> -delete
it didn't delete them.  Do you think your way would work
where manual command wouldn't?  But, they are gone now,
so I can't try it anyway.