Karl F. Larsen enscribed thusly:
> Hello Guru's
> I hit my mouse key 2 at a poor time and sent a lot of text to the
> prompt. I tried rm and it got part of it but one long line I can't rm or
> mv or kill or anything.
Opppsss... Wish I had a nickel for every time I've done that.
> When I use ls -i I see the offending line has an inode number
> which I think a smart person can delete and solve my problem.
Easier method that I use for getting rid of files when you can't
type in the name (non-ascii characters and such).
Change to the directory where the bad files and and type:
rm -ri .
Say "n" to everything you do not want to delete and "y" to the
bad guys you want to dump. Will get anything with backspaces or non-ascii
cruft that you couldn't get to any other way...
> My question is, how do you delete an inode number?
> Best wishes
> - Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
Mike
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