ritter@cs.msstate.edu (Thomas H. Ritter) (07/27/89)
Rick Geymont <GU.GEYMONT%SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU@wasatch.utah.edu> writes: >The easiest way I have found to remove files with special characters in the >name is to do the following: >do an 'ls -i' and get the inode number >type 'find . -inum # -exec rm {} \;' where # is the inode number. > >Works every time... > Well almost every time. Our Suns have the -inum option but our Unisys 5000 SYSV3.1 does not. The interesting thing is that the following : rm - -name works and removes the file called "-name" BUT gives an an error anyway. BTW, I can do an ls -i and see the inode information but what other ways could I remove a file based on inode number? Tom Ritter ritter@cs.msstate.edu
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (07/28/89)
>Well almost every time. Our Suns have the -inum option but >our Unisys 5000 SYSV3.1 does not. Your Suns *document* the "-inum" option but your Unisys does not, I assume; this is different from "your Suns have the '-inum' option but your Unisys does not." "-inum" has been in "find" since V7, but the first time it was actually *documented* was in some BSD release, and the SunOS documentation picked it up from there; the folks who did S5 didn't bother documenting it. Try "-inum" on your Unisys and see if it works.... >The interesting thing is that the following : > > rm - -name > >works and removes the file called "-name" BUT gives an >an error anyway. That should work without a complaint on your Suns, since their "rm" command is BSD-derived and thus supports "-" as an option to tell it "everything after this is a file name, even if it begins with '-'". Your Unisys box should have a similar option, named "--", since the S5R3 "rm" uses "getopt" to parse its arguments and "getopt" handles "--", so try rm -- -name there.
bsa@telotech.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (08/01/89)
In article <20373@adm.BRL.MIL>, ritter@cs (Thomas H. Ritter) writes: +--------------- | Rick Geymont <GU.GEYMONT%SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU@wasatch.utah.edu> writes: | >The easiest way I have found to remove files with special characters in the | >name is to do the following: | >do an 'ls -i' and get the inode number | >type 'find . -inum # -exec rm {} \;' where # is the inode number. | | Well almost every time. Our Suns have the -inum option but | our Unisys 5000 SYSV3.1 does not. | | BTW, I can do an ls -i and see the inode information but | what other ways could I remove a file based on inode number? +--------------- rm `/etc/ncheck -i ...` ++Brandon -- -=> Brandon S. Allbery @ telotech, inc. (I do not speak for telotech.) <=- Any comp.sources.misc postings sent to this address will be DISCARDED -- use allbery@uunet.UU.NET instead. My boss doesn't pay me to moderate newsgroups. ** allbery@NCoast.ORG ** uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!{allbery,telotech!bsa} **