Ugly file name

John Hevelin jackh%twinpeaks at Sun.COM
Wed May 17 03:44:16 AEST 1989


    This has always worked for me, but I haven't
tested it against every conceivable possibility.

1. I use "ls -i" to obtain the i-number of the ugly
   file:

   % ls -i

     12345 ugly'"^H^G&     98765 goodfile2
     67890 goodfile1       43210 xyzzy

2. Then I use "find" to remove the file:

   % find . -inum 12345 -exec rm {} \;

3. If I want to save the contents of the file before
   removing it, I do something like:

   find . -inum 12345 -exec cat {} \; > goodfile



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