Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number

From: Kamal R. Prasad (kamalpr_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/05/05

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    Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
To: simon.roberts@earthlink.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    --- Simon Roberts <thorpflyer@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > A couple of observations:
    >
    [snip]

    [snip]
    >
    > Point 2, likely as not, might explain why there's no
    > simple mechanism for doing this from rm. At the very
    > least you'd have to specify the file system you're
    > referring to, and many "plain" users couldn't do
    > that
    > safely. Those that can are probably able to use find
    > anyway.
    >
    A (device no, inode no) can uniquely identify a file
    -but then it requires the same amt of traversals (from
    the root directory's inode) that any other utility
    does. Im not sure rm can optimize anything that a find
    .. -exec rm {} \; would.

    > Cheers,
    > Simon
    >
    >
    > --- Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> wrote:
    > > Erik Udo writes:
    > > > I couldn't find a way to remove files that had
    > > scandic/non-printable
    > > > letters, then i remembered ls showed inode
    > number
    > > of the file. Is it
    > > > possible to remove the file by the inode
    > number?
    > > It would be a
    > > > useful feature :)
    > > >
    > > > I bet there is a way to remove those files, but
    > > only
    > > > third party programs came to my mind.
    > >
    > > How about rm -i ./*?
    > >
    The POSIX std requires -i to be used for 'interactive'
    (and even if it didn't that is already the case on
    most unix systems).

    regards
    -kamal

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