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From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dummy question
Date: 17 Oct 1996 03:52:16 -0700
Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA
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Message-ID: <545350$7j6@itchy.serv.net>
References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr>
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In article <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr>, Frederic MARAND <fgm@osinet.fr> wrote:
>sam@wa4phy.async.com (S.W. Drinkard) wrote:
>work, a solution existed on SunOS 4, and that was using the
>little-known command unlink, which passes its argument(s ?) straight
>to an unlink() syscall. That worked, and if *BSD has it too, it should
>work too.
I should throw this in ; I've found it useful from time to time for peskily-
named files.
do ls -i. this will list the directory by inode. Let's say the inode in
question is #12345. do
find . -type f -inum 12345 -exec rm {} \;
This will get rid of any file, no matter how nasty the filename is.
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