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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 22 Oct 1996 11:29:46 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 19 Sender: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <54i7mq$1ss@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <543o1d$pe0@newsbr.eunet.fr> <545350$7j6@itchy.serv.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <545350$7j6@itchy.serv.net>, zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) writes: : 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. No it won't. rm will still be passed something beginning with a '-'. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... .