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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unlink(inode)? or how to remove file with '/' in its name
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.120621.11674@virtech.uucp>
Date: 19 Oct 90 12:06:21 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.030832.10894@melb.bull.oz.au>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Oct18.030832.10894@melb.bull.oz.au> sjg@sun0.melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty) writes:
>It only took five minutes to write a short C programme to print
>inode/name pairs from a directory. ls(1) etc weren't any use at
>all, though echo '*' would at least show the name.

You could have used od(1) to get this info.

>Ok, I know the inode, all I have to do is get rid of it.  How?

If you just want to get rid of it, try clri followed by fsck.

If you want to save the file and just change the name so that it
no longer has a / in it, use fsdb.


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