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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (bill vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: need help for SCO Xenix Sys V 286. ver 2.1.3
Keywords: removal of odd files, files have non-ascii chars in name!
Message-ID: <529@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 15:50:58 GMT
References: <1689@wasatch.utah.edu> <23770@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (bill vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <23770@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>In article <1689@wasatch.utah.edu> ch-tkr@wasatch.utah.edu (Timothy K Reynolds) writes:
>
>>My Problem: ... But we can't clean ... due to some odd files which still exist
>>
>>Anybody out there know how to get around this problem?  I would really
>>appreciate your help with this matter.
>
>One way is to pipe the output of find into a simple program that unlinks
>files as in
>
>find . -type f -print | zapcrap
>
.... (program deleted - wjv)

Since he is running SCO Xenix, he can use a find parameter which has been
around since the first Xenix port from version 7, but has been undocumented
(in the manuals I have seen) since Xenix 2.   (Or was that Xenix II ?)

The parameter is inum.  (do a strings on /bin/find and it is there).

Go to the offending directory.  Do   ls -lai  .  This will show you all the
files with their inumber in the first colum.  Then it is as simple as

find . -inum xxx -print -exec rm {} \;

You don't need the print statement, but I like to see what is going on.

bill
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