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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Filenames and Inode Numbers
Message-ID: <2295@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 27 Jul 89 19:04:49 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Well almost every time.  Our Suns have the -inum option but
>our Unisys 5000 SYSV3.1 does not.

Your Suns *document* the "-inum" option but your Unisys does not, I
assume; this is different from "your Suns have the '-inum' option but
your Unisys does not."  "-inum" has been in "find" since V7, but the
first time it was actually *documented* was in some BSD release, and the
SunOS documentation picked it up from there; the folks who did S5 didn't
bother documenting it.  Try "-inum" on your Unisys and see if it
works....

>The interesting thing is that the following :
>
>      rm - -name
>
>works and removes the file called "-name" BUT gives an      
>an error anyway.

That should work without a complaint on your Suns, since their "rm"
command is BSD-derived and thus supports "-" as an option to tell it
"everything after this is a file name, even if it begins with '-'".

Your Unisys box should have a similar option, named "--", since the S5R3
"rm" uses "getopt" to parse its arguments and "getopt" handles "--", so
try

	rm -- -name

there.