OK, this is the last time I answer from the bar :)
I didn't mean that using inodes was the "only" way, I just knew it would
work.
I also stated that the syntax might not be correct as I didn't test it.
[n...@hostd1 ~]$ ls -li
total 64
31758 -rw-rw-r-- 1 user group 4549 Oct 21 14:50 text.html
[n...@hostd1 ~]$ find . -inum 31758 -exec rm -i {} \;
rm: remove regular file `./text.html'? y
You could also use find . -inum 31758 | xargs rm
I think CLI users should be aware of multiple options so thanks to those
that replied with how to escape the special characters.
-Mike
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Dale Farnsworth <d...@farnsworth.org>wrote:
> > I don't know who to rotate the image, but to delete your file you need
> > to use the inode. This is off the top of my head so if the synax is
> > wrong you can just google it.
> >
> > ls -il "-rotate90"
> >
> > find . -inum 123456 -exec rm -i {} \;
>
> The above suggestion doesn't work because the ls command fails. It's
> also a very roundabout way to delete a file. There is no need to use
> i-numbers.
>
> The manual page for rm says:
> To remove a file whose name starts with a ‘-’, for example ‘-foo’,
> use one of these commands:
>
> rm -- -foo
>
> rm ./-foo
>
> Using "--" to separate flags/options from filenames works for many
> commands, including ls.
>
> -Dale
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