Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
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: <1990Oct21.002523.27266@virtech.uucp>
Date: 21 Oct 90 00:25:23 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.030832.10894@melb.bull.oz.au> <1990Oct20.182146.27039@isis.cs.du.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Oct20.182146.27039@isis.cs.du.edu> cbrandau@isis.UUCP (carl brandauer) writes:
>First, why write a C program when 'ls -i' will return the inumber (NOT inode)
>of the file.  Once you have the inumber (say nnn),
>
>	find . -inum nnn -exec rm {} \;
>
>will do what you need.

No it won't.  The problem with a filename that has a '/' in it is that
there is no way to access that file because the low level kernel 
routines interpret the '/' as a directory separator.


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