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From: abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ugly file name
Summary: watch out for links!
Message-ID: <2003@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 24 May 89 02:23:28 GMT
References: <105096@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <131@hydra.ecrcvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl)
Organization: CSU Northridge
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In article <105096@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jackh@sun.UUCP (John Hevelin) writes:
>3. If I want to save the contents of the file before
>   removing it, I do something like:
>
>   find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile

Just make sure that your bad file (inode #12345) has no other links to it
(at least in the hierarchy headed by ".") otherwise, you will cat multiple
copies of the file together

% ls -li
total 2
12345 -rw-rw----   2 me       mygroup        5 May 23 19:00 bad_file
12345 -rw-rw----   2 me       mygroup        5 May 23 19:00 OK_file
% find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile
% ls -li
total 3
12345 -rw-rw----   2 me       mygroup        5 May 23 19:00 bad_file
12345 -rw-rw----   2 me       mygroup        5 May 23 19:00 OK_file
  734 -rw-rw----   1 me       mygroup       10 May 23 20:00 goodfile

This should show what I mean...
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