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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
Subject: Re: How do I remove a stubborn file?
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.172256.13669@ssd.kodak.com>
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References: <1991Apr24.141633.26512@ucunx1.san.uc.edu> <1111@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 17:22:56 GMT


In article <1111@keele.keele.ac.uk>, pha21@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Braham
Levy) writes:
|> 	ls -li   ..... get inode number for file in question
|> 	find . -inum <inode number> -exec -rm {} \;
                                          ^
and when the find fails, just type (in csh):

example% ^-rm^rm^

(Sorry, but it didn't work for removing -csh in my bin directory. :-) )

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )