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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: File remove command?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.050747.1436@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 17 Jun 91 05:07:47 GMT
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>In article <1991Jun15.210940.18999@cbnews.cb.att.com> ask@cblph.att.com writes:
>So, you now want to remove all files with inumber 397
>You need to know the root directory of your filesystem
>(use the /etc/mount or df command to find out if you are unsure)
>Then do a find and remove all occurences of that inumber
>$ cd /usrc    # /usrc is the filesystem containing the files
>$ find  .  -inum 397 -exec rm {} \;
>Caution:  inumbers are not unique in your system; only in your
>          filesystem.   So it's a very bad idea to do a
>                        find / -inum 397 .....

Howver, depending on the system and the particular find command, not every find
command has "-inum" as an option.  I know that the GNU find command has this;
howver, the more recent System V Unixen have the -xdev (GNU find) or -mount
(System V) option to restrict the search to the implied (by the pathname, "."
in your example) file system.

If you don't have "-inum" you could, as root, use "ff /dev/rdsk/? | grep 397"
to find the file belonging to that inode.  Then remove it.  See ff(1) and
find(1) in the FM.

derek
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