find -inum option undocumented
guy at sun.UUCP
guy at sun.UUCP
Fri Jul 11 04:58:55 AEST 1986
> This is true. However, the BUGS section should mention that, for almost
> all applications, ncheck(1m) is a much better way to locate a file based
> on its i-node number.
Only if you have read permission on the partition containing the file system
you're searching - which normal users will not have if the system
administrator is sane. In most cases, it is the administrator who's
searching for that file, so this is not a problem. (Then again, I can't
remember the last time I searched for a file by i-number anyway.)
--
Guy Harris
{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
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