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From: caggiano@esquire.UUCP (Frank Caggiano)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Accessing files by inode #s
Message-ID: <316@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 18:05:54 GMT
References: <11470@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: caggiano@esquire.UUCP (Frank Caggiano)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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In article <11470@brl-adm.ARPA> iunix1@almsa-1.arpa (Will Martin) writes:
>
>One common problem we have encountered here in using UNIX-based office
>automation systems is people accidentally creating files with odd names,

[ Goes on to request info on how to remove the file with the odd name ]

>Regards,
>Will Martin
>wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA   (on USENET try "...!uunet!almsa-1.arpa!wmartin")

Two methods that have always worked for me are:

	rm -i [some combination of chars to narrow done the list]

This will ask you for each file if it should be removed, just skip the
ones you don't want removed and answer y to the errant file.  Be careful
with this however as foo^Ybar and foobar will both show up as foobar.

If there are a number of files you want removed or you don't feel like
stepping through rm -i use:

%ls > filename
%vi filename

Now remove all lines in the file which do not match the files you want removed
then add a rm (or rm -i if you are paranoid) in front of each filename left.

exit vi then run 

%sh filename
(or make filename executable and run it)


Regards.