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From: doug@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Douglas W O'neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: File remove command?
Message-ID: <8725@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 17 Jun 91 12:22:05 GMT
References: <3431@crdos1.crd.ge.COM->
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <3431@crdos1.crd.ge.COM-> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
->Has anyone written a remove command which will unlink all links to a
->file inode when the command is issued on any one name? Yes I know it's
->dangerous, but there are times when I want certain data unconditionally
->off my system.
->
->Example:
->  $ mkdir foo
->  $ cd foo
->  $ date ->x1
->  $ ln x1 x2
->  $ remove x1	# this is the one
->  $ ls
->  $
->-- 
->bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
->        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
->         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"

How about 
find / -inum `ls -i foo | awk '{print $1}' -` -exec rm -f {} \; -print

Doug
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