Friday, August 20, 2010

Command to delete file by inode number

To find the inode number:

$ ls -il

Output:
781956 drwx------  3 viv viv 4096 2006-01-27 15:05 gconfd-viv
781964 drwx------ 2 viv viv 4096 2006-01-27 15:05 keyring-pKracm
782049 srwxr-xr-x 1 viv viv 0 2006-01-27 15:05 mapping-viv
781939 drwx------ 2 viv viv 4096 2006-01-27 15:31 orbit-viv
781922 drwx------ 2 viv viv 4096 2006-01-27 15:05 ssh-cnaOtj4013
Command to delete file by inode number:

$ find . -inum 781922 -exec rm -i {} \;

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