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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Accessing files by inode #s
Keywords: inode find
Message-ID: <9356@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 18:19:20 GMT
References: <831@dolqci.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <831@dolqci.UUCP> stein@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stein) writes:
 on accessing file by inode...

|      Yes!  You can do anything you want via
| 
|           find <path> -inum <inode> -exec <command> \;
| 
| In the <command> you refer to the file as '{}'.  Thus, if you have a
| file in the current directory with an insane name (but you know its 
| inode number is '1234') and you want to rename it 'foo', you would type:
| 
|      find . -inum 1234 -exec mv {} foo \;

You would be well advised to use "{}" for the filename, too.
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