How do I remove a stubborn file?

Gary Weimer 253-7796 weimer at garden.ssd.kodak.com
Fri Apr 26 03:22:56 AEST 1991


In article <1111 at keele.keele.ac.uk>, pha21 at seq1.keele.ac.uk (Braham
Levy) writes:
|> 	ls -li   ..... get inode number for file in question
|> 	find . -inum <inode number> -exec -rm {} \;
                                          ^
and when the find fails, just type (in csh):

example% ^-rm^rm^

(Sorry, but it didn't work for removing -csh in my bin directory. :-) )

weimer at ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )



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