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From: ritter@cs.msstate.edu (Thomas H. Ritter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Filenames and Inode Numbers
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Date: 26 Jul 89 20:18:58 GMT
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Rick Geymont <GU.GEYMONT%SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU@wasatch.utah.edu> writes:

>The easiest way I have found to remove files with special characters in the
>name is to do the following:
>do an 'ls -i' and get the inode number
>type 'find . -inum # -exec rm {} \;' where # is the inode number.
>
>Works every time...
>

Well almost every time.  Our Suns have the -inum option but
our Unisys 5000 SYSV3.1 does not. The interesting thing is
that the following :

      rm - -name

works and removes the file called "-name" BUT gives an      
an error anyway.

BTW, I can do an ls -i and see the inode information but
what other ways could I remove a file based on inode number?


Tom Ritter
ritter@cs.msstate.edu