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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Accessing files by inode #s
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Date: 31 Jan 88 01:51:31 GMT
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In article <530@celerity.UUCP> jjw@celerity.UUCP (Jim (JJ) Whelan) writes:

>>          find <path> -inum <inode> -exec <command> \;

>The find will traverse file mount points so you may locate files in file
>systems other than the one you are interested in.  Be especially careful
>with using "rm -f" as the command.

If you are playing with "-inum" it is probably a good idea to use "-xdev" 
also, if you want to prevent find from traversing other filesystems. 
Do all versions of find support -xdev?  4.3BSD and SunOS3.4 find have it,
at any rate.


-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu