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From: jackh%twinpeaks@Sun.COM (John Hevelin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
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Date: 16 May 89 17:44:16 GMT
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Reply-To: jackh@sun.UUCP (John Hevelin)
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    This has always worked for me, but I haven't
tested it against every conceivable possibility.

1. I use "ls -i" to obtain the i-number of the ugly
   file:

   % ls -i

     12345 ugly'"^H^G&     98765 goodfile2
     67890 goodfile1       43210 xyzzy

2. Then I use "find" to remove the file:

   % find . -inum 12345 -exec rm {} \;

3. If I want to save the contents of the file before
   removing it, I do something like:

   find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile