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From: gordonp@mako.UUCP (Gordon Prieur)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: deleting a bad directory
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Date: Mon, 14-May-84 12:50:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 12:50:50 1984
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    An easier way to delete a file with unprintable chars
in the file name is bye using ls -li to get the inode number
and then doing a find:

	find . -inum <inumber> -exec rm {} \;

This does the same thing that scw suggests, but doesn't require
any programming and is much quicker/easier.

Gordon Prieur
Tektronix