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From: rwelsh@cct.bbn.com (Robert J. Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Accessing files by inode #s
Message-ID: <11525@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 28 Jan 88 17:55:02 GMT
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Will,

If you want to get rid of files that have control characters etc in their
name, this should work:

1) ls -i            to get the inode number
2) set `ls -i | grep <desired Inode#>`; rm $2


If you just want to rename the file so you can get at it, replace the
    rm $2
with
    mv $2 <newname>
or any other command, using $2 as the source file name.


This will work in the  standard  shell, 'sh', and derivatives thereof.


Regards,
Rob Welsh