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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: finding filenames from inodes
Summary: use 'find'
Message-ID: <9697@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 21:54:49 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

Why would you have the NUMBER but not the name of a file? Output of
'fsck', perhaps?

Anyway, try:
	find / -inum NUMBER -print

(If there's more than one mounted filesystem, you may turn up more than
one name, corresponding to NUMBER on different drives' inode-tables.)
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Jean-Pierre Radley		CIS: 72160,1341		jpr@jpradley.UUCP