> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:22:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, daniel wrote:
>
> > "rm Icon?" or "rm Icon?" will work of course, but it'll blow away stuff i
> > may want to keep. ie files named "Icons" or something like that. what i'm
> > really looking for is a way to represent the "\r" so that i can match the
> > filename exactly.
>
> as an option, use "rm -i Icon?", and just say "n" to the ones you want
> to keep. not a perfect solution if there are lots of files that match,
> but it does work.
There *is* the Std. Sysadmin Ultimate Method (tm):
ls -i Icon*
will list the inode of all files whose name begins with "Icon".
The inode is the real True Name of the file, down in the o/s.
Names are for humans.
At any rate, you then do
find . -inum icon-inode-num -exec rm {} \;
Make sure you put *all* the punctuation in. The find produces a
list, the {} says "
whatever you're trying to do, do it to the
current file in the list", and the \; says "that's the end of
the find command".
Ex:
get the inode:
> ls -i xerr*
> 115322 xerrors.042202 114579 xerrors.saved
to delete xerrors.saved:
find . -inum 114579 -exec rm {} \;
Book recommendation: Frisch, "Essential System Administration",
O'Reilly & Co, publisher
esp. read chapters 1 and 2. In 1, you will finally find an
explanation of the find command that makes sense.
mark, unemployed sysadmin and developer
--
"GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!" - Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer, Doonesbury
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