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From: keener@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Paul T. Keener)
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Subject: Re: finding filenames from inodes
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Date: 11 May 89 15:44:31 GMT
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In article <10993@netnews.upenn.edu> keener@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Paul T. Keener) writes:
>Is there anyway to find the filename of a file given the inode that it is on
>other than to search through the filenames for it?  I am running Sun OS 4.0
>Thanx.
>

I guess a should have mentioned that I want to do this from inside a program
and must be relatively fast.  ie find / -inode foo -print is NOT what I am
am looking for.

	-paul


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