deleting a bad directory

Gordon Prieur gordonp at mako.UUCP
Tue May 15 02:50:50 AEST 1984


    An easier way to delete a file with unprintable chars
in the file name is bye using ls -li to get the inode number
and then doing a find:

	find . -inum <inumber> -exec rm {} \;

This does the same thing that scw suggests, but doesn't require
any programming and is much quicker/easier.

Gordon Prieur
Tektronix



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