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From: dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Accessing files by inode #s
Message-ID: <4080@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 18:00:26 GMT
References: <11525@brl-adm.ARPA> <602@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <602@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>[The task is to delete a file whose name contains strange characters.]
>[The original poster thought that using Inode numbers was a good idea]
>[but couldn't quite see what to do next.			     ]
>
>In article <11525@brl-adm.ARPA>, rwelsh@cct.bbn.com (Robert J. Welsh) writes:
>> If you want to get rid of files that have control characters etc in their

On System V Rel 2.1 (and earlier) I've had good luck with the following:

	od -c .		# to determine the "real" characters in the filename

Then some combination of:

	rm 'filename in quotes'

Sometimes it is necessary to ESCAPE certain characters in the filename.

This almost always works.


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