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

From: Julien Gabel (jpeg_at_thilelli.net)
Date: 05/05/05

  • Next message: Halil Demirezen: "Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number" 
    Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 18:55:27 +0200 (CEST)
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    >> 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.

    Or "find [...] -print | xargs \rm" to bypass some problem
    with a very long list of files to delete. 

    -- 
-jpeg.
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