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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: .sh_history explodes...
Keywords: Curses maybe?
Message-ID: <3799@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 17:54:56 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Interesting.  I didn't know that rm'ing a file could leave it behind.

Now you know.

>Can a file exist without the inode?

No.

However, the inode can exist without a directory entry pointing to it,
which is what's happening here.  Pretty standard UNIX behavior....