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From: philip@cetia.fr (Philip Peake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: File remove command?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.071745.10556@cetia.fr>
Date: 19 Jun 91 07:17:45 GMT
References: <3431@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: CETIA, France
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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.

Depending on what system you have, you may or may not have "clri"
(usually in /etc).

This thing just zeros an inode. You should only use it in single user mode,
and then fsck the filesystem afterwards.

Philip