How do I remove a stubborn file?

Braham Levy pha21 at seq1.keele.ac.uk
Thu Apr 25 23:07:55 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr24.141633.26512 at ucunx1.san.uc.edu>, brenner at ucunx1.san.uc.edu (David L. Brenner) writes:
> I need to know how to remove a file from my account.  Some background,
> I had dialed in from home, and while saving a file, some linenoise came

anyone tried this recently ??

	ls -li   ..... get inode number for file in question
	find . -inum <inode number> -exec -rm {} \;

this has worked for me for years... don't forget the "\;" they're needed.
this saves having to junk a complete directory. 

braham


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