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From: scotto@crash.cts.com (Scott O'Connell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: corrupted files
Message-ID: <897@crash.cts.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 00:59:27 GMT
References: <840@stsim.ocs.com>
Reply-To: scotto@crash.cts.com (Scott O'Connell)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <840@stsim.ocs.com> glenn@stsim (glenn ford) writes:
>I am running SCO386 2.3.1, and have a problem.  There are several (15-20)
>corrupted files in my root directory that I can't seem to delete.  I have
>tried 'rm -i *', but when I come across the corrupted file it just says
>non-existent, and goes onto the next file.  Is there a way to delete these
>files?? In prvious problems such as this I would do rm -r, but I can do
>it this time since the bad files are in the ROOT directory.  Any help
>would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
>

I use find . -print -ok rm {} \;	-OR-

      ls -i	<find the inode number>
      find -inum <#> -exec rm {} \;

Both of these work for me.
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